Angelina Jolie Quotes

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Angelina Voight Jolie (Pitt) is one of the most interesting (and controversial) actresses working these days. A product of a Hollywood marriage, she has seemingly managed to grow into a compassionate social activist as well as a very talented actor in her own right. Here's a few thoughts from one of our favorite Femme Fatales:
"Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest."

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

"An Oscar is nice, but I never take that seriously and I make a point never to see awards. I give them away immediately, so that they are never in my environment."

"Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark secret with me or that I'm obsessed with death. The truth is that I am probably the least morbid person one can meet. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."

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

"Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny."

"I always play women I would date."

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

"I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free."

"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."

"I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive.I find scars attractive."

"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."

"I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor.. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was."

"I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark."

"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"
"Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes."

"The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon."

"Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy."

"There was a time when I was really going to give up acting, right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine."

"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

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

"With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today."

"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."
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