Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is an Oscar-winning South African and American actress. She has starred in several Hollywood films, such as The Devil's Advocate, Mighty Joe Young, The Cider House Rules, The Italian Job, Hancock, A Million Ways to Die in the Westand Mad Max: Fury Road...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 August 1975
CityBenoni, South Africa
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I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
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So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.
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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.
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I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.
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We know how much our careers mean to us,
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There are these moments when you can't back down.
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Whether its a real person or not, is irrelevant, ... The human condition is the same.
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When you're playing with aspects of sexuality, certain things have to be hidden. That's what my mother always used to tell me. I wanted to stay as true as possible to the original character, but didn't feel the need to go as far with the costume.
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You can't control those things. When they happen, it's great, but if you put too much emphasis on that, you lose track of what you're supposed to be doing and the work itself.
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This year has proven to make those kind of films you don't need to make them feel like medicine, you can make them powerful and still entertaining.
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We've come a long way, and changing a law is really important. What I've realized is laws change, but you also have to change how people think. And that takes time.
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We didn't want them to watch the film and say, 'Oh, God, that's me. Now everybody knows that about me.' We wanted them to say, 'That reflects my life, but it's not me.'