Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is an Oscar-winning South African and American actress. She has starred in several Hollywood films, such as The Devil's Advocate, Mighty Joe Young, The Cider House Rules, The Italian Job, Hancock, A Million Ways to Die in the Westand Mad Max: Fury Road...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 August 1975
CityBenoni, South Africa
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The thing that's great about this story is it's not just about the first class action sexual harassment case, ... It's really also about this community and about people just trying to survive.
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Then they started telling me stories about how this abuse didn't just affect them. It affected their children when they went to school, when they went to go play hockey. It wasn't just something that happened at work and then it was done. It really bled into the community and there was just this constant fight.
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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.
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I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.
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I think we all have a well we draw from, and there is a healthy way to approach it and a non-healthy way, ... I feel extremely healthy. I don't feel damaged. I'm not haunted. I come from a community where you just don't do that. There's no choice. You move on.
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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.
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In many ways, my mother is my audience, so I do listen to her advice.
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I just went through that, so for me to be thinking about it again would just seem very selfish,
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I'm proud to continue supporting Global Green's smart climate solutions by riding to the Emmys in a fuel-efficient hybrid. In the aftermath of Katrina, we especially need to do everything we can to conserve gas and other energy resources such as driving fuel-efficient cars.
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It's so hush hush that they have sworn everyone to absolute secrecy and haven't revealed the exact date or location yet.
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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,
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The celebrity status in Hollywood has gotten really out of control,
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I'm going to kiss your (butt) too - but literally.
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I'm happy for people who want to get married but it's not my thing, ... I'm extremely happy in my relationship and I would love to have kids.