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.
— Charlize Theron
I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.
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.
I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.
I always knew I would adopt. Always.
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 think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.
There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.
They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.
So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.
I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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 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.
So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.
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.
I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.
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.
I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.
Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
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 only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.
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.
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.
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.
Modeling was never a passion of mine.
I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.
You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
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.'
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.
From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'
You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
I've always known I wanted a family.
You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.
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 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.