Angelina Jolie Quotes (102 Quotes)


    I was really nervous, because I wanted to make sure Id be a good mom. Hes made me the best person I could possibly be.

    I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

    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.

    It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.

    The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?


    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.

    I'm angry. I'm sad. It's a very difficult and sad time. It was a real deep connection, a deep marriage, so it's not that simple to say this or that one thing caused the problems. It's clear to me that our priorities shifted overnight. He's focused on his music and career. I'm focused on my baby.

    When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

    I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

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

    If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

    Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

    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.

    You had to trust each other to cross under or over and only move when the other person moves, so the trust, when somebody's got a loaded gun at your back. ... It made us trust each other quickly,

    I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

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

    I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

    I am a working mother who has set goals to accomplish a lot in this world. I want my wardrobe to be beautiful, sexy and comfortable all at the same time. St. John is all of those things.

    I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

    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 didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

    We will never get it under control if we are selective about who gets to survive.

    I would like to be open with the public. I would like to not keep secrets or be careful when I talk. I don't want to have to plan things...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.

    She's like she has gained 6 pounds. ... We are calling her chubby. ... Good Morning America.

    I am absolutely ashamed Washington has not formally ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Being an American I think it's horrible. I think Congress should ratify that. If we really care about that how dare we not ratify it

    And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

    I'm just thrilled to have this opportunity to help bring this to the forefront of peoples' minds this week... It is a rare occasion that I am really thanking the press.


    If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

    I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger

    It was really tough. You need this wonderful, calm doctor who tells you everything is going to be OK.

    There are so many wonderful pledges that could come in in the next few years, but this winter is in the next few weeks and so many people are in danger of possibly freezing to death,

    I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

    I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

    You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

    We love this country and we plan to be back over and over again.

    I just think, especially my daughter, there's no possible way she would have gone to school. She is so smart and so strong, and her potential as a woman one day is great. Hopefully, she will be active in her country and in her continent when she's older. And because she'll have a good education, she'll be able to do that much more.

    These people have received aid but they are very far out, and they are very concerned about the winter coming,

    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.

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

    This is a nice evening for a bunch of people who have all been doing good things over the years. It's a friendly group, ... Just to be a part of anything with them is nice.

    I haven't touched a knife in a really long time--I don't need one, I don't want one. Mind you, I will be doing Tomb Raider, and I will probably be throwing them. But I was 14. I was like a real punk kid, and I was going out of my mind. And then sex was boring and I was working and.

    Sierra Leone is still scarred by the war, but the people have invested a great deal of courage and hope in the truth and reconciliation process, ... It is vital that the government acts on the (Truth and Reconciliation Commission's) recommendations to ensure that history will not repeat itself.

    They give me so much joy and I wanna make a better world for them. I'm just grateful every day that I have the chance.

    I'm not saying I'm for or against war, but the amount that is spent every month, being, I think they said, five billion dollars, and to ... realize that we're spending 15 billion on AIDS, for over, what is it Three years, five years

    I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

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

    I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

    I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

    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!


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