742 Quotes by Angelina Jolie

I like the feeling of being dominated. It actually makes me feel safe as opposed to challenged.

What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.

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

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

My children love Maleficent's voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

I remember the days of auditioning and being nervous and so I really didn't want to make people have to jump through hoops to do auditions and be nervous and make them more nervous. I kind of wanted to hire everybody and find something for everybody.