Charlize Theron Quotes, Thoughts and images

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

My whole concept in life is if you're not using it, you should give it to somebody else so they can use it.

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

You have to keep evolving.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

Beauty is more than skin deep.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

I know that I'm only as good as I am because of the things that I allow into myself and into my soul, because that's the stuff that I project back out.

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

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.

Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

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 rely on something else.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

We value some lives more than others.

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.

I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.

I really love having an awareness.

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.