Quotes from Charlize Theron

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

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.

I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.

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.

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

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.

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

There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

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

I've always known I wanted a family.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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