Top 518 Quotes & Sayings by Angelina Jolie - Page 4

I'm in a rare position where I don't have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

The boys know they're from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don't have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That's hard.

I don't want people saying, 'Should we get a female director?' I want to hear, 'Should we get a great director for this movie?'

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

I've played real people before, but I never knew them.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a 'Tomb Raider,' has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It's like therapy.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I've had - and I've had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

We think it's fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That's not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn't become actors.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn't get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.

That's when it becomes a business. When you've been public a long time, when it's a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

I feel matured in a way that I'm happy about. I'm at this other stage in my life - and it's not a bad thing at all.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need - protection and love.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don't. Personal attacks on me? I think I'm just so used to it.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn't always know she had.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life

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

I like the feeling of being dominated

What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.

Don't fit in, don't sit still, don't ever try to be less than what you are...

I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free ... and I won’t...

Of course {I'm bisexual}. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.

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.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

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

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.

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

When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.

There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.

I just stay healthy all year round. I try to feel good in my skin. For me, I have trained in ballet my whole life so my body really feels best when I feel strong and tight and toned, and I think that comes from years and years of constant training as a ballerina. Leading up to the show, getting out there in your underwear, you just want to feel your best mainly in your head than more anything else. Obviously you want to feel good physically too, so it's more just in your head, pushing yourself, approaching this challenge and taking the opportunity to push yourself a little further.

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

When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different - and I felt out of place, and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something, something I hope you all realize. Different is good.

I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

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

No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.

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.

It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Arabs and Mulims are not terrorists.The world should unite against Israel.

It may sound cliché, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.