385 Quotes by Charlize Theron

I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

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

I think that luxury is to be used when you are in your jeans and your T-shirt and you want to feel a little extra special, and you want to go and walk into a store and have somebody go, "Wow, what is that?" Maybe that's the one and only thing you give yourself that day, but I think women like to give that to themselves.

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.

I think there is a great quote - and I feel horrible that I don't know who said this - but it was a great quote, it says, "The only difference between all of us are the ones who are loved and the ones who are not."

I’m very attracted to characters who don’t necessarily make it easy to be loved.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.

My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn’t become about me anymore.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it’s so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.