Angelina Jolie Quotes & Sayings

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time. — Angelina Jolie

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always. — Angelina Jolie

I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. 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. — Angelina Jolie

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent. — Angelina Jolie

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

The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while. — Angelina Jolie

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids. — Angelina Jolie

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home. — Angelina Jolie

I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids. — Angelina Jolie

I respect all religions. What I don't respect is when people use religion to attack others. I've met people across the world, in the middle of nowhere, who are just trying to survive and all they have is religion. In some why, it helps them, and I wouldn't take it away from them. There are also people who use to to hate and kill. I don't consider them religious people. — Angelina Jolie

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, 'cause I love her and she's my friend. — Angelina Jolie

Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future. — Angelina Jolie

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

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life. — Angelina Jolie

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that. — Angelina Jolie

Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting ... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that. — Angelina Jolie

It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it. — Angelina Jolie

I am the kind of person who doesn't recognize borders. I don't understand why we think it is okay to keep someone within one border when they are unable to feed their family when they could be getting help somewhere else. I don't see people as different so I don't understand the idea of borders in this world. — Angelina Jolie

And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much. — Angelina Jolie

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become. — Angelina Jolie

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

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion. — Angelina Jolie

I just stay healthy all year round. I try to feel good in my skin. For me, I have trained in ballet my whole life so my body really feels best when I feel strong and tight and toned, and I think that comes from years and years of constant training as a ballerina. Leading up to the show, getting out there in your underwear, you just want to feel your best mainly in your head than more anything else. Obviously you want to feel good physically too, so it's more just in your head, pushing yourself, approaching this challenge and taking the opportunity to push yourself a little further. — Angelina Jolie

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see. — Angelina Jolie

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world. — Angelina Jolie

I think I connect to people who could be written off as wild or dark, or who are just full of fire and looking for a place to put that fire. It's an important lesson to learn, and it's something I did learn: you live on behalf of others and you're happier and you have purpose. And you have a great excuse to have all that fire. — Angelina Jolie

I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors' director and what that is. I've learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I've picked up something from everybody I've worked with. — Angelina Jolie

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self. — Angelina Jolie

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad. — Angelina Jolie

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor. — Angelina Jolie

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. — Angelina Jolie

I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there. — Angelina Jolie

I like the feeling of being dominated. It actually makes me feel safe as opposed to challenged. — Angelina Jolie

The one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that. — Angelina Jolie

Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves you, and when you make somebody else happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world. — Angelina Jolie

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. — Angelina Jolie

Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting. — Angelina Jolie

The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job. — Angelina Jolie

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with. — Angelina Jolie

With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today. — Angelina Jolie

I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them. — Angelina Jolie

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents. — Angelina Jolie

There was a time when I was really going to give up acting
right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine. — Angelina Jolie

I loved being on the other side of the camera. I loved watching another actress in the spotlight, do an extraordinary job, and I loved making her beautiful and interesting, protecting her emotions, and showing people her talent. — Angelina Jolie

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. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife. — Angelina Jolie

I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere. — Angelina Jolie

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. — Angelina Jolie

They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that. — Angelina Jolie

I realized that very young - that a life where you don't live to your full potential, or you don't experiment, or you're afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don't get around to them, is a life that I'd be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I'm on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that's maybe safe or traditional. — Angelina Jolie

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids. — Angelina Jolie

There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership. — Angelina Jolie

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately ... I don't. — Angelina Jolie

I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can act in many things, and you can try to experience different characters, but to direct is years of your life and you have to really love it and believe in it. — Angelina Jolie

I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the UN when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said 'What do you do?' I said 'I'm an actor.' He replied 'I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.' It was lovely. — Angelina Jolie

When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different. And I felt out of place
too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And, then one day I realized something, something that I hope you all realize: Different is good. — Angelina Jolie

It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict ... There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex - everything to do with power. It is done to torture and humiliate innocent people and often very young children. — Angelina Jolie

I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk. — Angelina Jolie

I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer, — Angelina Jolie

I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It's happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn't stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time. — Angelina Jolie

People always slow down for a train wreck. It's like junk food. If you don't feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don't understand why it's there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better. — Angelina Jolie

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else. — Angelina Jolie

I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything. — Angelina Jolie

What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you. — Angelina Jolie

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. — Angelina Jolie

Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest. — Angelina Jolie

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent. — Angelina Jolie

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in. — Angelina Jolie

I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity. — Angelina Jolie

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like. — Angelina Jolie

In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees. — Angelina Jolie

I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn't sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it's because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window. — Angelina Jolie

I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason. — Angelina Jolie

I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes. — Angelina Jolie

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

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased. — Angelina Jolie

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for. — Angelina Jolie

A Path Appears is an insightful book focused on how individuals can contribute to positive change and the remarkable people behind the organizations that make it happen. The authors' desire to motivate people to support good causes, learn about the situation in other countries, and find the best way to help their fellow men and women is inspiring. — Angelina Jolie

I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on. — Angelina Jolie

On second marriage: It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet. — Angelina Jolie

I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper. — Angelina Jolie

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it. — Angelina Jolie

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire. — Angelina Jolie

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough. — Angelina Jolie

I'm not a hugger. People make fun of me. It's something that I have a hard time with. If someone hugs me, I hold my breath. Snuggling, cuddling, hugging, crying - all that stuff makes me very uncomfortable. — Angelina Jolie

I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain. — Angelina Jolie

It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong. — Angelina Jolie

I've often felt unattractive or different looking. As I've grown up, I've felt more comfortable in my own skin. It may sound cliche, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside. — Angelina Jolie

The Coen brothers said something that helped me, When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone. — Angelina Jolie

Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its 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. — Angelina Jolie

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child — Angelina Jolie

What surprised me about directing is how much I loved it and how happy I am to be on the set. I love coming to work in the morning. What I realized is that I never loved acting. I don't love being in the hair and makeup chair. I don't [love] being in costume. To me the strangest thing is that I've just spent the majority of my life in one aspect of this business, and because I was fortunate enough to become successful I never questioned whether I felt at home and found out later in life that I'm much happier directing. — Angelina Jolie

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. — Angelina Jolie

An off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction. — Angelina Jolie

I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive. — Angelina Jolie

I've realized that being happy is a choice. — Angelina Jolie

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

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity. — Angelina Jolie

I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to
do something good with my life. — Angelina Jolie

I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped. — Angelina Jolie

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