Top 35 Charlize Theron Quotes

I like what I do, and I’m very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don’t have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.

If I don’t like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that’s when I think I’ll stop.

I’ve always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

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

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

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

I guess there are very few actors that I’ve worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you’ll have that chance and, if we didn’t do Italian Job together, there wouldn’t be another one that could be right.

I’ve always known I wanted a family.

I learned everything about love, watching ‘Splash.’ That’s why I’m still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

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

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I’ll say to myself: ‘I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn’t be there.’

Yet there’s a hunger in me still. I’m like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.

I’m always open to a relationship, but I’m not putting those feelers out there now.

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don’t look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don’t think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn’t necessarily given to me, and that people didn’t necessarily think that I would be able to do.

I am a relationship girl. That’s kind of just how I’m made… When you’re in my life, it’s actually very contained.

I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it’s maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.

I’m happy for people who want to get married. It’s not my thing.

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they’re still HIV negative.

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 a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

Modeling was never a passion of mine.

I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

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.

If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.

So far I’m not surprised by anything about being a mom. It’s all pretty great – but that’s what I expected.

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

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

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It’s about something greater. It’s about acceptance.

When I’m working I don’t have room to think about myself and my own issues. It’s really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.