Quotes from 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.

And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.

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

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

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.

No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.

To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and they are survivors, they are amazing.

I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off. I always have something going on.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

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.

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

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

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.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

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.

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

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.

Men don't really like skinny, do they?

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

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.

I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them.

I am so in love with my brother right now!