Charlize Theron Quotes on Woman (9 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.

really related to that kind of strength in women.

Not to sound on a pedestal about women, but the reality is, we bring a completely different element to it just because we are women,

The mine was kind of this very mysterious thing for all of the women, ... In there, they realized pretty quickly that they were taking jobs where there weren't jobs to be taken. And that these guys were going to try and break them down so that they would just leave.

Hell, I would be terrified if Hollywood showed up in my community and was going to pick a scab, ... The other thing was 'How are the men going to be portrayed' You have to understand what the men struggled for. At the end of the day, it was survival for both sexes. That doesn't justify the behavior, but in this community, this mine was the one thing they considered theirs and their fathers' and brothers'. The women were taking jobs in a community where there were no jobs to be taken.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

Action films have been very testosterone-driven, not that that's a bad thing. But there is an interesting sexuality that I don't think has been that well explored in that action world, which is something women could bring to that genre.

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.