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I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?

Films that I want to do are few and far between.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

It's the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, my son.

The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.

I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

I don't really send text messages. I rarely carry my phone. I occasionally check messages at the end of the night, but I don't carry it around.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective. I wanna learn and I wanna listen.

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.

I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

The one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it.

Never send a boy to do a woman's job.

I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off. I always have something going on.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

I think I'll be working a lot less as I get older

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.

I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.

Don't fit in. Don't sit still. Don't ever try to do less than you are.

The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child

Some people go shopping - I cut myself.

Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.

What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Family is what grounds you.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.

It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.

I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to
do something good with my life.

For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

It's better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn't want to be there

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift ... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

When I was little ... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant.

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop!

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately ... I don't.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.

I don't do things that are comedic. This is such a crazy idea.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer,

I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken.

An off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

Cause a little trouble. It's good for you.

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

I always play women I would date.

There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely ... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.

I'm a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it's not going to upset her.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.