A biography for Charlize Theronhasn’t been written yet.
“Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.”
“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.”
“You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.”
“There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.”
“I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.”
“So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.”
“And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.”
“I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.”
“I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.”
“I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.”
“You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.”
“At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.”
“I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.”
“I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.”
“I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.”
“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.”
“I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.”
“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've always known I wanted a family.”
“I always knew I would adopt. Always.”