Charlize Quotes & Sayings

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do. — Charlize Theron

I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks. — Charlize Theron

If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop. — Charlize Theron

I've never been driven by box office. — Charlize Theron

We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion. — Charlize Theron

I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people. — Charlize Theron

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son. — Charlize Theron

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck. — Charlize Theron

I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I'll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for "Mad Max." — Charlize Theron

From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.' — Charlize Theron

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman. — Charlize Theron

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking. — Charlize Theron

Oh my God I am so cool. — Charlize Theron

I've always known I wanted a family. — Charlize Theron

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters. — Charlize Theron

We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way. — Charlize Theron

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman. — Charlize Theron

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever. — Charlize Theron

I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud. — Charlize Theron

I think in life we want to challenge ourselves. — Charlize Theron

I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron." — Alexandra Daddario

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that. — Charlize Theron

I worry about you. Not just about your safety. I worry when you're stressed. I worry when you're unhappy."

His words leveled her world.

Her eyes snapped open and she saw him - saw him in a way that would stay with her forever.

"I fucking worry about you not eating breakfast. I worry about every damn little thing about you. I worry about you like I've never worried about anything in my life. Because I care. I fucking care, Charlize. I care so much it makes me scared. I don't think you're incapable of looking after yourself - I just can't help needing to make everything okay. — Amber A. Bardan

I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy.' — Charlize Theron

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me. — Charlize Theron

You're very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it's very tricky when you throw us all together because we all work differently. You want to get the best work out of every individual actor. — Charlize Theron

Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person. — Charlize Theron

I don't like rehearsal. — Charlize Theron

I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again" — Charlize Theron

I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made ... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained. — Charlize Theron

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did. — Charlize Theron

Boys don't really like big nerdy glasses. Not so much. — Charlize Theron

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn. — Charlize Theron

Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity. — Charlize Theron

If I am able to carry on modeling, I'll be very happy to, but my passion is definitely in music and acting. I would love to do what Meryl Streep is doing. Her or Judi Dench, or maybe Charlize Theron as well. — Cara Delevingne

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head. — Jennifer Lawrence

Life is what you make it ... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be. — Charlize Theron

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career. — Charlize Theron

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films. — Charlize Theron

Modeling was never a passion of mine. — Charlize Theron

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love. — Charlize Theron

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged ... — Charlize Theron

Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. — Charlize Theron

I havent lost my culture, just my accent. — Charlize Theron

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life. — Charlize Theron

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally. — Charlize Theron

Remember I came to Albuquerque to do a hair and makeup test and wardrobe fitting; you guys were already shooting. It's tough when the movie's already started and you kind of show up. You're the new kid on the block. I walked onto the set and Tommy [Lee Jones] was about to do the scene. I just kind of walked up to him. I was shaking, but I just gave him this big hug and he just had nothing to say. He was like, 'Gotta go to work now.' I had a great time working with him. — Charlize Theron

I really like the risk takers. I like people who make those different choices on the carpet. I really like Charlize Theron. I think she's elegant and edgy as well. I love Zoe Saldana. — Genesis Rodriguez

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that. — Charlize Theron

You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible. — David Edelstein

I met a woman in Albuquerque and she came and hung out with me in the trailer. It was really just more to kind of really understand my biggest concern was always the interrogation scenes. Remember, that's why I really wanted to meet somebody because you see those scenes on TV so much. — Charlize Theron

I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death. — Charlize Theron

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world. — Charlize Theron

I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set. — Charlize Theron

've had good friends who got married after they've been together for years and they've said that it was the "next step" for them. Or, they've said, "You just can't bail out anymore." And I've wondered, What made you think you could just bail out before [the wedding]? You don't invest that kind of time and energy with somebody and then just go, "All right, see you later." — Charlize Theron

Teresa Lewis, the only woman on death row in Virginia, says she doesn't deserve the death penalty because she only hired the killers of her husband and stepson, she didn't actually pull the trigger herself. You know, she has a point. I think we should let her be able to hire the person who executes her, and not do yourself in! How's that, doll? Yeah! Get it over with quick, maybe Charlize Theron will sign up to play you. — Dennis Miller

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative. — Charlize Theron

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice. — Charlize Theron

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe. — Charlize Theron

I'm 50-50 on glamour stuff. I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy. — Charlize Theron

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones. — Charlize Theron

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman. — Charlize Theron

I do have a sense of fear every day going to work, but I think it's something that I like. I mean I do like the feeling of waking up on my own, having this moment of like: "Oh, f**k, I hope I can do this today!" Because it makes you realise that you're working with material or you're working with a director or you're working with a cast and they're keeping you on your toes. — Charlize Theron

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that. — Charlize Theron

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche. — Charlize Theron

I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men. — Charlize Theron

If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago. — Charlize Theron

Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with. — Steve Erickson

Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could]. — Charlize Theron

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like. — Charlize Theron

I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now. — Charlize Theron

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules. — Charlize Theron

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels. — Charlize Theron

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize. — Charlize Theron

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone. — Charlize Theron

I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse ... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days. — Stephenie Meyer

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over. — Charlize Theron

People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make any analogy or any assumption, which writers do quite a bit. It's not something I ever for one second thought about. This is not my life story, and I've never told my life story, and I have no interest in telling my life story. — Charlize Theron

If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it. — Charlize Theron

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me. — Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she's wearing. — Alexandra Daddario

I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous. — Charlize Theron

Looks alone won't get you that far. It may get you in the door, but there's always somebody younger, somebody prettier. You have to rely on something else. — Charlize Theron

There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do. — Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses. — Jack Nicholson

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't. — Charlize Theron

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural. — Charlize Theron

My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore. — Charlize Theron

I tend to, if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director. — Charlize Theron

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature. — Charlize Theron

You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better. — Charlize Theron

I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility . — Charlize Theron

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not. — Charlize Theron

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line. — Charlize Theron

Music tells a lot about a person. I don't have to have a memory to know that. - Charlize "Charlie" Wynwood — Tarryn Fisher

I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to. — Charlize Theron

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure. — Charlize Theron

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important. — Charlize Theron

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened. — Charlize Theron

I really love Charlize Theron. I've never met her before, but she seems really down-to-earth in interviews, really intelligent and funny and cool - and she's just this glorious goddess who holds herself with such confidence. — Alexandra Daddario