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

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

Charlize Theron

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

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

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

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

We value some lives more than others.

We value some lives more than others.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

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 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 love being a woman and I love being feminine.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

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

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

Beauty is more than skin deep.

Beauty is more than skin deep.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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