Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

Charlize Theron

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.

Charlize Theron

I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.

Charlize Theron

I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I think in the AIDS community we've become so complacent in that, it's like we just plateaued... We've completely neglected a whole young generation that is now highly infected.

Charlize Theron

I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.

Charlize Theron

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.

Charlize Theron

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

Charlize Theron

When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.

Charlize Theron

I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"

Charlize Theron

Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.

Charlize Theron

I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.

Charlize Theron

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

Charlize Theron

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

Charlize Theron

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

Charlize Theron

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

Charlize Theron

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature

Charlize Theron

I love that old glamour look. I think it's because I grew up on it.

Charlize Theron

I don't really talk about my personal life and I don't really talk about my relationships. I'm not a big partier. I like the simplicity of my life, and I've chosen the kind of life I really want to live. I don't think my life is boring at all.

Charlize Theron

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.

Charlize Theron

Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.

Charlize Theron

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

Charlize Theron

I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.

Charlize Theron

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

Charlize Theron

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

Charlize Theron

I think that luxury is to be used when you are in your jeans and your T-shirt and you want to feel a little extra special, and you want to go and walk into a store and have somebody go, "Wow, what is that?" Maybe that's the one and only thing you give yourself that day, but I think women like to give that to themselves.

Charlize Theron

I think there is a great quote - and I feel horrible that I don't know who said this - but it was a great quote, it says, "The only difference between all of us are the ones who are loved and the ones who are not."

Charlize Theron

There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.

Charlize Theron

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

Charlize Theron

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged...

Charles Lamb

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

Charles Lamb

You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

Charles C. Mann

The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.

Charlaine Harris

What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.