Movie Quotes by Charlize Theron

11 Movie quotes by Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron’s insights on film reveal a thoughtful actress who values both performance and storytelling. In eleven short notes, she shares a nuanced view of what makes movies resonate.

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I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

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I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

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

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When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell…

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People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies." And that's not where the problem…

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So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the…

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I don't feel it's my job anymore to be nice. In the beginning, if a stranger said, 'your movie was great', I…

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I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not…

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I really don't understand why anyone would think that you have to be physically perfect to be in movies, because it's so…

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I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not…

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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…

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I met a woman in Albuquerque and she came and hung out with me in the trailer. It was really just more to kind…

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I love the idea of longevity in this career. But [producing] is not about, "Let me do this because this might happen 20 years…

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It's in the eyes, mostly. Don't listen just to the other actor's lines. Look at - and listen to - their eyes. That's where…

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I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy…

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Looks alone won’t get you that far. It may get you in the door, but there’s always somebody younger, somebody prettier. You have to…

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I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

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Of course you want your son, your children, to be proud of you.

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I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.

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My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world…

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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

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I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself…

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I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just…

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I think of myself as a highly sexual creature, I have to use that, I like it.. I didn't grow up with a mother…

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I know what I'm capable of wearing in one lifetime and what I really need.

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