"Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy."
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Angelina Jolie quotes (page 16 of 20)
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"I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past."
"I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off."
"I think a woman is sexy when she's in nice clothes, flattering clothes. I don't think that being half-dressed in little half-tops... I don't find that sexy."
"They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing."
"And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others."
"A word of advice, don't point your #$%^&^& finger at crazy people"
"I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me."
"... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that."
"I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face."
"What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad."
"But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time."
"We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us."
"Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third"
"I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!"
"I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here."
"I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved 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."
"The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women."
"We talk about orphanages, we talk about their countries and differences, and it’s a source of excitement and pride. I’ve heard Maddox explain to Zahara when they are talking about pregnancy, ‘No, Zee, remember, you were in that nice African woman’s belly. I was in that nice Cambodian woman’."