| Angelina Jolie Quotes |
- "I use Blistex, but because my lips are naturally red, I also subdue the colour with a nude lipstick. I know other women would kill for my lips, but I feel they take over my face."
- "Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it's simply a way of your own."
- "It's not my responsiblity to have a personal life that everybody's comfortable with."
- [on being pregnant] “I love it. It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing. Also, I’m fortunate. I think some women have a different experience depend-ing on their partner. I think that affects it. I happen to be with somebody who finds pregnancy very sexy. So that makes me feel very sexy.” - Vanity Fair June 2008
- "I like who I am better today than I have before. I've come to a place where I'm very comfortable, settled. It's the first time in my life I've been able to be soft, and I'm finding strength in that."
- [on her international family] “When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents. It’s not a humanitarian thing, because I don’t see it as a sacrifice. It’s a gift. We’re all lucky to have each other. I look at Shiloh—because, obviously, physically, she is the one that looks like Brad and I when we were little—and say, ‘If these were our brothers and sisters, how much would we have known by the time we were six that it took into our 30s and 40s to figure out?’ I suppose I’m giving them the childhood I always wished I had.” - Vanity Fair June 2008
- [on Shiloh's birth] “We were in this little hospital in Africa when Shi was born. I don’t think there was anybody else in the hospital. It was just a little cottage, the three of us. It ended up being the greatest thing…. I had a C-section and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.” - Vanity Fair June 2008
- [on nannies] “We don’t ever have anybody spend the night. We may have to adjust that when the next one comes. But we do have ladies that work with us, and they’re also from different cultures and back-grounds. One lady’s a Vietnamese teacher—wonderful. One is of Congolese descent from Belgium. Another is from the States and is really creative and does art programs.” - Vanity Fair June 2008
- [on artists as parents] “Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.”- Vanity Fair June 2008
- "I'm a pussycat really, but I can kick ass if I have to."
- [about Maddox] “I’m not somebody who usually believes in any kind of fate, but when I first met my son Maddox, I had the strangest feeling. I knew I was going to adopt a child, and I woke up that morining thinking, ‘They’re gonna introduce me to this kid, and I wonder how I’m gonna feel.’ And the moment I saw him, I knew I was his mother. And I can’t explain it; I don’t know why, but I know it was meant to be.” - Harper's Bazaar December 2008
- "We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
- "I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."
- "I'm supposed to tell stories, and you're supposed to believe I'm other people. You shouldn't be so focused about who I really am. "
- "What nourishes me also destroys me."
- "If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is."
- "If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me."
- [how does she feel in herself] "I’m very, very lucky. I feel… you have a loss and my mum was far too young. She was 58. But she lived long enough to meet most of my children. So, you can only think of that and you can only focus on just how grateful you are. I also think that when you love somebody that much, you’re happy when they’re out of pain. Period. As much as you miss them, the important thing is that they don’t suffer. But I’ve been so blessed to have healthy children and a great partner… we’re having such a wonderful time raising our children together. There’s a lot of love in our home. So, I remind myself of that whenever I think of what I’ve lost."
- "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives, shit happens."
- "Like when you stop at Baskin-Robbins and get a cone with sprinkles and sit in the car singing along to Elvis on the radio. It's an absolutely necessary thing to do, because you can."
- "Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy."
- "Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark secret with me or that I'm obsessed with death. The truth is that I am probably the least morbid person one can meet. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."
- "If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up."
- "Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like, go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes."
- [As a mother, was it hard to get your head around what Christine Collins (Changeling) went through] "It was very hard. When I first read this script, I couldn't put it down. I immediately said, 'No, I can't do this project because it is too upsetting.' But then I couldn't stop talking about her. I found myself sitting with people and wanting them to know about this extraordinary woman. In the end it became a story about democracy in action, about justice, about suffering a great loss and fighting through it to make a change for the future, and other people, and questioning the government and questioning the police. I thought it would be like an extra piece of justice for her to tell her story, but as a mom, it was horrible. I had my kids with me as much as possible, at lunch during the day. I just ended up being very goofy at home and so happy that I knew where my kids were." - Changeling Interview November 2008
- “I’m still, at heart - and always will be - just a punk kid with tattoos.”
- [about explaining the violent roles she and Brad play in movies to their children] “Listen, my kids play video games. I let them play with toy soldiers. We don’t take war and violence lightly, but we don’t hide it from anybody. We say, ‘Mommy and Daddy have movies where we play these characters, but there’s real death and real violence in the world.’ There’s a real responsibility there to create in their minds the difference between the two.” - Harper's Bazaar December 2008
- [about being a UN Goodwill Ambassador] “I do what I want to do, because I love it. I got into the field years ago, because I wanted to understand what was happening in the world and I love spending time with refugees. Selfishly, it’s the most I’ve ever grown, the most I’ve ever learned and some of the best times I’ve ever had speaking with other human beings.” - Harper's Bazaar December 2008
- [about her mother] “My mom was really soft-spoken, but if anybody crossed her children, she somehow found this remarkable strength.” - Harper's Bazaar December 2008
- “After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn’t looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don’t see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.” - Vanity Fair June 2008
- “In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.” - Vanity Fair June 2008
- [Where does the name Shiloh come from] “It’s a biblical name, but we didn’t name her for that. It was a name my parents almost named their first child—there was a miscarriage: Shiloh Baptist. Because my father had been shooting in Georgia and that was the most southern name my parents could come up with. It’s a name I always liked. I used to go under it in hotels: Shiloh Baptist. I’d gone under it when Brad called hotel rooms where I was staying.” - Vanity Fair June 2008
- “When my mother passed, I realized that somebody who lives life with that kind of dedication to their family is the most noble. I was aware of it growing up. I admired her. And I loved her. But in her passing she reminded me what matters. And what’s most fun—to put yourself aside for these other little people you’re raising.” - Vanity Fair June 2008
- “Mad always knew my mom was sick. So when it happened, I sat him down and I told him how some people believe there’s a heaven where everybody goes and is together again. And they believe it’s very white and beautiful. And some believe—he’d just seen Casper—there are ghosts who are people and they are always around. And some believe it’s a long peaceful sleep. When I told him, and I was crying, ‘Grand-mère died today, we won’t be able to see her anymore, but she’ll always be around,’ he said, ‘Like she’s here now? Like she’s in that chair?’ And I said, ‘Well, I suppose she could be.’ And he accepted it. It’s funny. It’s like we teach kids the things that we want to believe. Then we see that they have such beautiful faith and it helps them go to bed and we’re in the other room not sleeping well.” - Vanity Fair June 2008
- "I'm tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again just for a little while. Then I will do whatever I can to help these people. How could I not once I met them, once I saw them."
- "If you cheat on somebody, I don't agree with you. If you hurt somebody or damage somebody? You're not OK in my book. And you're never going to be, period."
- [Why did she do Wanted] “Because I had just done A Mighty Heart and was scheduled to do Changeling, which is about the kidnapping of a child. And I had lost my mom. And I knew I was in this odd, fuzzy state going from one loss and kidnapping to another loss and kidnapping. Then Wanted came along. It’s about being physical and jumping and running and being violent, and instinctively I knew I needed to do that.” - Vanity Fair June 2008
- "I said I'd never straddle that blow up shark. I told them it was the stupidest thing I'd heard. Then Will and Jack hopped on, and I thought, let's get on the damn fish. It's not like I haven't straddled some odder things in my life."
- "Age is beautiful. My mother was beautiful. She was when she passed away. I have a family that loves me as I am. I see little bits of me in my daughter - so that's beauty to me. Honesty is also beauty."
- "My family says everybody has a favourite Disney movie that says something about you. Maybe Dumbo was always laughed at for the things that were strange about him and eventually was proud of that and that's what made him fly."
- "I've never really dated. I've slept with four men in my life, so it's funny to think that people think I'm a sex maniac."
- "I'll never sleep with a married man, I'll never lie and I'll never sit back and do nothing."
- "I don't see women, men, or black, white. I don't see a handicapped person, I just see the person. I see the aura, the energy."
- "I'm extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I don't try to be shocking. I'm playful, and I know when something I'm saying is maybe shocking, but it's just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live."
- "I don't take a lot of that "you're so hot" stuff seriously. I'm a really goofy odd little person and people will discover that eventually. For instance, I only wear black because I'm a slob. In fact, I only wear clothes that don't show spilled coffee. I'm one of the most flawed people. I woke up this morning and broke the phone by falling over."
- "When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
- "I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy. But I feel better when I have more weight on me. So it's when I'm not feeling like myself that people are telling me I look great. It's so strange. No matter what, somehow it's like I'm not enough."
- "I think most young people go through a point in their lives where they're considering death, or considering why they're alive, or why not, or why not to continue, or why to continue. And there's something, death doesn't scare me at all. I made a decision that if I was going to live the life I wanted to, and live in the moment, that you could never be too careful or cause it could risk, you know, you think about, or if I do this, then it could affect me this way in the future, or if I do this I'm risking my life, you know, you just have to do everything that you want to do, never regret anything, and be completly in the moment and in order to do that, you have to accept the realities of life and death."
- "I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia [for Tomb Raider]. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful. And barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. Because I feel like me. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody just loves you, and when you make somebody happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world."
- "Be brave, be bold, be free."
- "I don't think any one person or any one organization should have the final word. That being said, I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most."
- "When it comes to the cameras, we make sure the children aren't scared of them, so we say, They're just silly people who take pictures - aren't they crazy? How could you possibly explain something that there's no good explanation for? On her children they don't watch my movies. Your own kid's don't find you very cool."
- "Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."
- "If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, then I'd rather be completely fucking mental."
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Movie/TV title: Girl Interrupted
Movie/TV title: Gia
Movie/TV title: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Movie/TV title: Gone In 60 Seconds
Movie/TV title: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Movie/TV title: Alexander
Movie/TV title: Wanted