Angelina Jolie Quotes

At The End Of The Day I'm Gonna Be Dead One Day, And What People Say About Me Is Going What I Accomplished And What I Did In My Life And How My Children Are. And I Don't Think It's Gonna Be What Was Printed In The Tabloids This Year.

Working With [robert] De Niro Taught Me A Lot About Being An Actor's Director.

The Loss Of A Child Is My Greatest Nightmare.

My Mom Always Wanted Me To Be An Actor. And I Started Going To Theater And Going On Auditions Young. I Only Realized About Five Years Ago That I Actually Didn’t Want To Be An Actor.

It's Getting Harder To Make Decisions To Work For The Sake Of Working. Like Everybody, I'm Trying To Find Things That Are Extremely Challenging Or Mean Something To Me Deeply. Sometimes Something Like The Tourist Comes Up And It's Just Fun, But It's Not As Easy To Find Projects That I Have To Do. I Have To Be Home And I Have To Do Other Things, But I Don't Have To Work As Much.

I Think Actors, Because We're In The World Of The Characters And The Movie, Are More Isolated, And It Always Really Fun To Wake Up And Be A Family With The Entire Crew.

What Surprised Me About Directing Is How Much I Loved It And How Happy I Am To Be On The Set. I Love Coming To Work In The Morning. What I Realized Is That I Never Loved Acting. I Don't Love Being In The Hair And Makeup Chair. I Don't [love] Being In Costume. To Me The Strangest Thing Is That I've Just Spent The Majority Of My Life In One Aspect Of This Business, And Because I Was Fortunate Enough To Become Successful I Never Questioned Whether I Felt At Home And Found Out Later In Life That I'm Much Happier Directing.

For Anybody That Works In Any Kind Of Demining Or Any Kind Of Humanitarian Aid Work, There Is Danger And It's Always A High-risk Area [in Cambodia].

I'm Shy To Call Myself A Director Still. When Someone Says, 'what Do You Do For A Living?' I Don't Know If I've Earned That.

I Loved Being On The Other Side Of The Camera. I Loved Watching Another Actress In The Spotlight, Do An Extraordinary Job, And I Loved Making Her Beautiful And Interesting, Protecting Her Emotions, And Showing People Her Talent.

Like Most People, You Listen To Yourself On The Phone Or An Answering Machine And You're Like, 'ugh.' So To Do Something With Just Your Voice Is Hard.

I Wasn't Into Fairytales When I Was Little. I Was Of The Generation Of The Earlier Disney Films Where Many Of The Female Characters, With The Exception Of The Maleficent's, Were Not Little Girls That I Admired... The Little Princesses. They Weren't Characters That I Identified With. I Think That's Very Different Now For My Girls And More Recent Films.