Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelina Jolie

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

Angelina Jolie

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

Angelina Jolie

"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.

Angelina Jolie

I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Angelina Jolie

I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.

Angelina Jolie

I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.

Angelina Jolie

Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.

Angelina Jolie

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.

Angelina Jolie

I think I'll be working a lot less as I get older

Angelina Jolie

I don't understand why some things are talked about and others are not. I don't know why I think I can make any kind of difference. All I know is that I want to.

Angelina Jolie

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

Angelina Jolie

I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.

Angelina Jolie

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

Angelina Jolie

I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

Angelina Jolie

On second marriage: It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet.

Angelina Jolie

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

Angelina Jolie

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.

Angelina Jolie

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

Angelina Jolie

I am the kind of person who doesn't recognize borders. I don't understand why we think it is okay to keep someone within one border when they are unable to feed their family when they could be getting help somewhere else. I don't see people as different so I don't understand the idea of borders in this world.

Andrew Buchan

I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along.

Andrew Clements

Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.

Andrew Bernstein

You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

Andrew Cohen

We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.

Andrew Cohen

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

Andrew Bird

I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.

Andrew Bird

Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.

Andrew Bird

I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

Andrew Bird

People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

Andrew Bird

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

Andrew Bird

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

Andrew Bird

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

Andrew Bird

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

Andrew Carnegie

The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.