Charlize Theron Quotes on Movies (19 Quotes)

My character is fictional, but she is based on all the women who fought the sexual harassment case, and everything you see in the film actually happened.

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.

We didn't want them to watch the film and say, 'Oh, God, that's me. Now everybody knows that about me.' We wanted them to say, 'That reflects my life, but it's not me.'

People said, 'Oh, you're doing another ugly movie,' ... I said, 'No, I'm doing another film about real people, and it's not about ugly vs. anything.' It's about searching for that constant truth, and I don't think I'll be able to sleep at night if I know I didn't search for that truth and implement it. I don't know how else to do it as an actor.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

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.

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

If people, critics respond to the film there, it starts a nice little wave of chat, which for a movie like 'North Country' is really important. It's one of those films that travels by word of mouth.

I was very scared going in, but also really excited about doing a film using my body again. I like that she never spoke. This character, she was very quiet, but she was telling her story through her body. It's a very physical role.

The celebrity status in Hollywood has gotten really out of control,

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.

I sat down with Karyn and said, You don't understand. I don't know these kind of movies,'

I had just arrived in Hollywood and didn't have a manager or agent. A very well known director contacted my modeling agency and said he had a small part for me in a big action film,

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 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.

The actress is going for a change of pace next. She's about to guest-star on five episodes of Fox's sitcom Arrested Development . I am a huge fan of the show, and I'm very picky with my comedy, ... I don't get to do comedy very often, and when they asked me, I jumped at the opportunity. I was ready to do something for fun.

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

It was a combination of my painkillers (for a neck injury) and the fact that everybody was paying tribute to this incredible woman, this incredible actress, so I had to go to the physical aspect of kissing her (bottom), ... She loved it. She said it was the best she's had all year.