Quotes from 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.

Modeling was never a passion of mine.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

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.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

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.

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

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.

Oh my God I am so cool.

I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.

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

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

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.

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.

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.

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.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

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

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

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.

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.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.