Quotes from Charlize Theron

I really love having an awareness.

I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.

I love that old glamour look. I think it's because I grew up on it.

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

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

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.

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.

I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.

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

I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right.

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

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

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.

I'm happy for people who want to get married but it's not my thing. I'm extremely happy in my relationship and I would love to have kids.

In life we want to challenge ourselves...

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

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

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

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

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

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.