Angelina Jolie Quotes

Nothing wins more hearts and minds and nothing gives more freedom than education and nothing is a better deterrent for conflict than an educated child

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet

I`ve been reckless, but I`m not a rebel without a cause

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

There`s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire

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

I am a strong believer that without justice there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I`m terrible at reading scripts. I love to read and I hate reading scripts. Brad reads a lot because he`s also producing. We`re always joking about the fact that I just hate it. I have no patience. I can`t watch movies either.

I take that as a very good sign. That some people support me and some people really don`t like me tells me that I`m making decisions and I`m standing strong for something I believe in. I`m making choices in life. And that`s the right thing to do

So to admit that I`m extremely human and have done some dark things, I don`t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do and I`d like to think it`s the nice thing to do.

We both like to ride motorcycles, we both like to fly planes, that`s the spirited side of us. Then the other side of us is very focused on silly mommy-daddy things. So I guess that`s extremes, but I just think of that as balance.

On weekends we usually have family sleep. We always have one night a week where everybody stays up late, watches a movie, and stays in our bed. We have, like, a slumber party.

My mom wasn`t big on cooking, so we`d go to Vegas sometimes and go to buffets and just have a big adventure. We took it as a time to have an experience together more than things or food. That`s probably why I travel with my kids

"All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what`s sexy or cool or tough."

"I always play women I would date."

"I didn`t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it`s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off."

"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you`re wonderful, then you start believing you`re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"

"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

Therapy? I don`t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

It`s alright. It`s a part of life . . . I lost my mom. It`s a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young, but it happened. And I`m happy she`s out of pain, because I love her and she`s my friend.

You`re young, you`re drunk, you`re in bed, you have knives; shit happens.

(on her split from husband Billy Bob Thornton) I`m angry. I`m sad. It`s a very difficult and sad time. It was a real deep connection, a deep marriage, so it`s not that simple to say this or that one thing caused the problems. It`s clear to me that our priorities shifted overnight. He`s focused on his music and career. I`m focused on my baby. It comes down to what`s important to you.

I don`t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that`s what counts.

(on what she does with the money she makes each year) Save one-third, live on one-third and give away one-third.

(People Magazine 8 July 1996) There`s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate life now.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It`s like people see Hackers (1995) and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I`d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I`m not frightened by anyone`s perception of me.

I`ll make it real simple, I`m a 36-C. In the game, she`s a double-D. In the movie (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)) she`s a D. We split the difference . . . (Lara) is much more athletic, and she has smaller breasts, but she`s still Lara Croft, so there.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

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.

(On if she ever caught her husband Billy Bob Thornton cheating) I`ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn`t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. And I`d beat her, too!

If I didn`t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

(on the superficiality of the industry) We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?

I don`t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don`t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

I`d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don`t have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

(2002) I`m drawn to kids that are already born. I think some people are meant to do certain things, and I believe I`m meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically.

Not many people know this about me but I`m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child as I loved the look then. So I`m basically a natural blonde.

(interview with Ann Curry) I`m in a strange, I suppose, place in my life. I think that happens when you lose a parent, where you drop into a different kind of serious. And yet, at the same time, you want to laugh and enjoy as much as possible every day. I`m hanging on to my family really tight at this moment, and, because of that, trying to be as good a woman as I can be in my life. Dammit, you got me crying.

(Regarding the possibility of marriage with her current beau and father of her child, Brad Pitt) We have both been married before so it`s not marriage that necessarily kept some people together.

And my dad, you`re a great actor but you`re a better father.

((CNN International Edition 29th January, 2005)) My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can`t find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I`m simply not excited about anything. I`m not excited about going to a film set.

(on playing Olympias in Alexander (2004)) I felt that if I lived at that time, with the dangers she had and the threats she had and the lack of power she had as a woman, I would not have been that different from her. And I thought I also just saw her as a mother who really would push her son at a time that if he didn`t get the throne, he didn`t acquire a certain kind of strength and ability and greatness, he would probably just die or be killed or be exiled. So out of concern, out of love for your own, just to come from this place that seems very much like the horrible mafia father, but in fact it was for his own survival that she was focused on, which made it very easy for me to focus on thinking of my own son and what he had to do to protect himself from bad things that could hurt him.

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.

You might never find out that you are useful for all the right reasons - and not all those stupid things that people tell you you`re useful for.

If you don`t get out of the box you`ve been raised in, you won`t understand how much bigger the world is.

Sometimes I think (my husband) is so amazing that I don`t know why he`s with me. I don`t know whether I`m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I`m everything I want to be.

I am so in love with my brother right now!

If being sane is thinking there`s something wrong with being different....I`d rather be completely fucking mental.

To the question ``is there a God?``
Angelina:For some people. I hope so,
for them. For the people who believe on it, I hope so.There`s doesnt need to be a God for me.There`s something in people that`s it`s spiritual, that`s godlike.I dont feel like doing things just because people say things , but also I don`t really know if it`s better to just not believe in anything, either.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what`s sexy or cool or tough.

And my dad, you`re a great actor but you`re a better father.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

I always play women I would date.

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

I didn`t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it`s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

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.

I don`t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that`s what counts

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I`m walking down the street.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I`ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don`t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

I never felt settled or calm. You can`t really commit to life when you feel that.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It`s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I`d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
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I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don`t like that. It`s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you`re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

I`d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn`t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

I`d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don`t have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

I`m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can`t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I`m happy being myself, which I`ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn`t have those things in mine.
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I`m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I`ve been reckless, but I`m not a rebel without a cause.

I`ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don`t trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

I`ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn`t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

If I didn`t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I`m not frightened by anyone`s perception of me

If you ask people what they`ve always wanted to do, most people haven`t done it. That breaks my heart.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you`re wonderful, then you start believing you`re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it`s unbelievable!

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don`t know why he`s with me. I don`t know whether I`m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I`m everything I want to be.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can`t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I`d rather not be in a cage. I`d rather be dead. And it`s real simple. And I think it`s not that uncommon.

Therapy? I don`t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

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.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

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.

You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

(on if she ever caught her husband Billy Bob Thornton cheating) I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. And I'd beat her, too!

I'll make it real simple, I'm a 36-C. In the game, she's a double-D. In the movie (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)) she's a D. We split the difference . . . (Lara) is much more athletic, and she has smaller breasts, but she's still Lara Croft, so there.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers (1995) and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

(on her split from husband Billy Bob Thornton) I'm angry. I'm sad. It's a very difficult and sad time. It was a real deep connection, a deep marriage, so it's not that simple to say this or that one thing caused the problems. It's clear to me that our priorities shifted overnight. He's focused on his music and career. I'm focused on my baby. It comes down to what's important to you.

(People Magazine 8 July 1996) There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate life now.

(on playing Olympias in Alexander (2004)) I felt that if I lived at that time, with the dangers she had and the threats she had and the lack of power she had as a woman, I would not have been that different from her. And I thought I also just saw her as a mother who really would push her son at a time that if he didn't get the throne, he didn't acquire a certain kind of strength and ability and greatness, he would probably just die or be killed or be exiled. So out of concern, out of love for your own, just to come from this place that seems very much like the horrible mafia father, but in fact it was for his own survival that she was focused on, which made it very easy for me to focus on thinking of my own son and what he had to do to protect himself from bad things that could hurt him.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

You might never find out that you are useful for all the right reasons - and not all those stupid things that people tell you you're useful for.

((CNN International Edition 29th January, 2005)) My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can't find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I'm simply not excited about anything. I'm not excited about going to a film set.

(on what she does with the money she makes each year) Save one-third, live on one-third and give away one-third.

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.

(Regarding the possibility of marriage with her current beau and father of her child, Brad Pitt) We have both been married before so it's not marriage that necessarily kept some people together.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

(2002) I'm drawn to kids that are already born. I think some people are meant to do certain things, and I believe I'm meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically.

(interview with Ann Curry) I'm in a strange, I suppose, place in my life. I think that happens when you lose a parent, where you drop into a different kind of serious. And yet, at the same time, you want to laugh and enjoy as much as possible every day. I'm hanging on to my family really tight at this moment, and, because of that, trying to be as good a woman as I can be in my life. Dammit, you got me crying.

Not many people know this about me but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.

It's alright. It's a part of life . . . I lost my mom. It's a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young, but it happened. And I'm happy she's out of pain, because I love her and she's my friend.

(on making action movies) I think there's always going to be that side of me. (Harrison Ford) is doing it, and he's doing it well, (so) it looks like I've got some more time.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning, if I did that.

My natural color is dark blonde. But when I was four or five, my mother dyed my hair dark brown, and she decided to keep it that way. And I stuck with that.

I was actually quite a cool kid. I was not tough. I was certainly independent and bold. I was never teased. I never had any trouble from anybody. ... I was never satisfied. I had trouble sleeping. I didn't really fit. I always feel that I'm searching for something deeper, something more... You want to meet other people that challenge you with ideas or with power or with passion. I wanted to live very fully. I wanted to live many lives and explore many things.

(on Brad Pitt) (He made me) a better person. I've learned so much from him, as you do when you come together with another person. You both make each other better. You both learn about the best of each other, and recognize the things where you're failing, or where you need to step up. When it's a great partnership, you really are patient with each other.

(on Cambodia and her humanitarian work) - One of the first camps I went to had 400,000 people. It was a sea of human misery. In Sierra Leone, I saw tens of thousands with their arms and legs cut off (by rebels), orphaned children. I felt completely overwhelmed. I cried constantly. I felt guilty for everything that I had. Then I realized I wasn't doing these people any favors by crying. I kept getting angry at the injustices until I couldn't think straight. I took a deep breath and focused on how I could help. I discovered that I was useful as a person. When I met suffering people, it put my life into perspective. It slammed me into a bigger picture of the world.

I grew up in front of everybody, really. The big years of exploration. There was a certain madness I was going through. I learned a lot about myself. People tend to sum up times in your life and simplify. I would say there's a way of being bold when you're young that seems very brave... What's perceived as tough is a very funny thing. I think to be a parent is one of the scariest, boldest things to do, as opposed to, um, getting a tattoo... Much more than jumping into a pool when you're 20.

There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.

When I first read the script for Changeling (2008), I couldn't put it down but then I said 'no' immediately. I didn't want to go into this project because it was too upsetting. But then afterwards I couldn't stop talking about her. I found myself sitting with people wanting them to know about this extraordinary woman and you wouldn't believe what happened to her, and what these people did to her in this time in our history. In the end, it became a story about democracy in action, about justice...even suffering a great loss and fighting through it and making a change for the future for other people, and questioning the government and the police. So, I found it very inspiring and really wanted people to know about her and felt like it was an extra piece of justice for her.

(on her friendship with Gwen Stefani and their children spending time together) All of the kids are very close in age. They've attended each other's birthday parties and gotten together several times at each other's homes. Somehow Gwen and I keep ending up pregnant at the exact same time.

It was nice for me to play with other girls; I don't really have girlfriends in movies, if you've noticed. Well, I have a few girlfriends, I just... I stay at home a lot. I'm just not very social. I don't do a lot with them, and I'm very homebound. I'll talk to my family, I talk to Brad... But I don't know, I don't have a lot of friends I talk to. He is really the only person I talk to.