68 Angelina Jolie Quotes

Angelina Jolie quotes

1. These problems do not disappear just because we do not hear about them. There is so much more happening around the world than what is communicated to us about the top stories we do hear. We all need to look deeper and discover for ourselves.... What is the problem? Where is it? How can we help to solve it?

2. It is especially shocking that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it. My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.

3. I was horrified by the attacks against her, [but] Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where he was born. In that country, there isn't really a legal framework for adopting. Personally, I prefer to stay on the side of the law.

4. 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.

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

6. When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I sort of wanted to be a vampire.

7. But there are very few people who can hold me in a way, to look at them and talk to me. And make me cry, and to talk to me about my life. And also to say, get out there. I believe in you. Go, go, go. And get me to go and go to get my life together. And for me to want to come back and say, look what I did.

8. I am one of those people who needs to learn to let people hug me. I also need to need other people because I do.

9. I consider myself to be straightforward.

10. I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

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11. I have been made to believe that no one could love me for me...Passion turns pain into ecstasy, you can't walk away from love.

12. I love my father, but I am not him.

13. I never liked being touched ever. People used to say that I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do. But I've never liked...Everybody thought I was really sexual.

14. I once smoked a lot, drank too much, suffered insomnia and like every other person I know, was unbalanced.

15. I think we all want justice and equality. We all want a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situaition someone would help us out.

16. I thought I'd help other people out, but in turn, they've really done more for me. It's made me a better person. I'm not so focused on my own problems.

17. I usually try to look for something I haven't done before, a side of me I haven't completely explored. There's a truth in acting, and there is a very real part of me that can understand that or believe in that or see the ugliness in that and the statment needs to be made. So it's all kind of me.

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

19. I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow and I love that you know.

20. 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.

21. I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

22. I'm so nervous, I'm about to fall over.

23. I've been reckless but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

24. 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 don't trust my instincts, that's when I get in trouble.

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

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

27. If enough people sitting around you telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too.

28. Live everyday like it'll be your last...Because one of these days, it will be.

29. Maybe I was just around a lot of people that cried, and I saw that it accomplished nothing.

30. The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul.

31. There was a time when I really was 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.

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

33. When I met Billy, I met him in an elevator... And he said 'Hi.' And then walked out and I walked smack into the wall actually, I really did.

34. When you focus on bigger things...Bigger than you and your life, you can find peace!

35. When your world falls apart or you're feeling depressed, you pick yourself up and smile so they won't worry.

36. You don't have to be somebody 'cause being someone does not make you anybody anyways.

37. You know, we all need to just wake up excited about life. I just want to do the job I always wanted to do ever since I was a little girl, and live in peace with family and people I love, and just be silly and collect t-shirts from gas stations and go on road trips and eat popcorn in the middle of the night and watch tv. That's all I want, you know?

38. Since her appointment as a Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina has more than fulfilled my expectations. She has proven to be a close partner and a genuine colleague in our efforts to find solutions for the world's refugees. Above all, she has helped to make the tragedy of refugees real to everyone who will listen. Angelina's interest in helping refugees, her personal generosity, and her truly compassionate spirit are an inspiration to us all.

1. It's hard no to work, so I find a way to put myself back to work. And I think it's important, in between projects, for me to sit down with who I've just become and allow her to continue to evolve and find a home inside me before I go and become somebody else. But I think I also need to learn to relax and not prepare too much, just enjoy life. I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don't have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

2. There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

3. I wanted to tell the story of Luong Ung, who's a dear friend of mine.

4. It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

5. Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

6. The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.

7. I love Brad in every state.

8. The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they're coming for lunch."

9. If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

10. 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.

11. No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.

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

13. My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.

14. I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.

15. If you can imagine the area and the land in Cambodia, I mean there are hardly any roads in big parts of the country. The roads they have, in the rainy season, become just mud. So, if you’re somebody that has just one leg, or blind with no arms and you have children and you’re trying to work, and earn some money, and take care of your home, it’s hard enough to be a parent and do all of that normally.

16. The boys know they're from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

17. 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.

18. I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.

19. Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.

20. This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

21. The 'Maddox Jolie-Pitt' Foundation's work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

22. We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn't be so quick to judge - and certainly not to judge a whole race, a whole religion or a whole people - and a lot of that is going on.

23. He knows my limitations and where I'm a good wife and a good mom.

24. The problem with my packed lunches though is everybody is very, very outspoken about what they want, so it becomes...I often say, Im not a waitress. We go through so much food, and theyre still little, so I can imagine its going to get worse. I feel like I was kind of looking for purpose when I was younger and I always wanted something wild and something just full of, I just wanted my life to be very full. And now my life is so full and so loud and so full of chaos in my house and the most beautiful chaos with these lovely little people.

25. I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn't something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn't gonna let that happen.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

30. Never send a boy to do a woman's job.