Charlize Theron Quotes

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

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.

My whole concept in life is if you're not using it, you should give it to somebody else so they can use it.

I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want

Think bigger than society lets you think. And find mentors. My life is filled with people who knew me when I was 19 and had a horrible South African accent and bleach-blond hair and who believed in me in a way that was brutal. They were just unbelievable and consistent and smart. Find mentors who, every time you're with them, you're being schooled. Just absolutely schooled.

You have to keep evolving.

I know that I'm only as good as I am because of the things that I allow into myself and into my soul, because that's the stuff that I project back out.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

One thing can make many other things happen.

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

I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.

Beauty is more than skin deep.

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

I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a generation that suppressed people and lived under apartheid regimes. I don't know how you can come out of that and not have an awareness for the world. I think that if my life had turned out any other way and I was working in a bank, I would still feel this way about it, because there's a connection to humanity that to me is really important.