Charlize Theron

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

“If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.”

“I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.”

“I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.”

“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.”

“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.”

“So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.”

“I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.”

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

“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.”

“I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.”

“I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.”

“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.'”

“So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.”

“I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.”

“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.”

“Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.”

“I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.”

“I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.”