Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie Pitt is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has been cited as Hollywood's highest-paid actress. Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out. Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2, followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers. She starred...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth4 June 1975
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently to work with Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari and his wife on the film Difret. They are that unique balance of very thoughtful conscious filmmakers who are also brilliant, original artists.
What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.
To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.
I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.
It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.
I knew nothing about their marriage. ... It's obviously been difficult with all this ... going on, ... I've been tied to everybody I ever worked with.
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.
These people have received aid but they are very far out, and they are very concerned about the winter coming,
This is crazy. I was looking at this. You just made my day.
The federal government's response must be dramatically increased in order to prevent a further loss of life.
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'm extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I don't try to be shocking. I'm playful, and I know when something I'm saying is maybe shocking, but it's just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.
I ... I don't even know. They're all the same, every single one of them. From wanting to scratch eyes out to you name it,
We will never get it under control if we are selective about who gets to survive.