385 Quotes by Charlize Theron

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.’

We don’t live the lives of Eskimos. We don’t need to kill animals for fashion.

You get yourself out there and you work hard and you hope that word of mouth kind of carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say “I believe that you can do this.”

Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them “dark films” it annoys me, because they’re very real stories. They’re stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.

It’s so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that’s incredibly truthful.

I’ve always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

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

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.”

At the end of the day, I’d much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That’s not who I am.