Charlize Theron Quotes

"We don't go through life with it all being smooth sailing. ... We all understand situations where you know it's swim or drown. It's a choice you have to make, and sometimes we surprise ourselves, when we actually make that choice and start swimming, with how well we can do it." — Charlize Theron
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"And didn't just happen in Minnesota, ... Anita Hill wasn't an isolated case. There are cases everywhere. And I don't think it's stopped." — Charlize Theron
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"If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels." — Charlize Theron
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"It's always nerve wracking. Any red carpet is always nerve wracking." — Charlize Theron
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"We've come a long way, and changing a law is really important. What I've realized is laws change, but you also have to change how people think. And that takes time." — Charlize Theron
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"There were 400 of them, and they actually worked in the mine where this had happened," — Charlize Theron
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"She made that accent famous in 'Fargo,' ... But we agreed to tone it down a little - so we didn't get laughs." — Charlize Theron
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"He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then there was Ben - he was my first dry hump." — Charlize Theron
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"This happens everywhere, ... It’s not like something that happened in the sixties, it’s a lot more recent than that." — Charlize Theron
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"It's just not my thing." — Charlize Theron
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"I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing." — Charlize Theron
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"It took me awhile, to be honest, because this was so extremely foreign to me. I had never done anything in the genre and I didn't feel like an expert. So, it took me a while to sit with Karyn and understand how I was going to service this. I very rarely jump into something and go, 'Oh, my God, I know I have to do this.' And, that's usually a good sign for me." — Charlize Theron
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"We'd have dinner with them. We'd bowl, we went snowmobiling and ice fishing. And they started trusting us. They really wanted us to tell the story right." — Charlize Theron
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"I come from a ballet background; I did ballet for 12 years and I consider that my theater. I told stories with my body for 12 years and then came into this industry. I couldn't let go of that and it's still important to me. I really wanted to learn the skills of what Aeon had. I wanted to learn gymnastics; I didn't want to just be on wires and fake everything. I learned some skills I never thought I would learn." — Charlize Theron
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"People said, 'Oh, you're doing another ugly movie,'" — Charlize Theron
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"It was a very foreign genre to me," — Charlize Theron
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"I didn't know about the comic and I'm not really very familiar with that genre, so it was a huge challenge for me." — Charlize Theron
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"She's very private, but she was incredibly helpful to me," — Charlize Theron
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"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do." — Charlize Theron
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"And also it's a little bit of, the more they say, `No, you can't,' the more you say, `No, you know what? Yes, I can.'" — Charlize Theron
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"I couldn't change how people thought of me, ... I had to believe someone would come along and believe in me enough to give me a chance, and that's what happened." — Charlize Theron
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