"Love elevates. Love is what you live for."
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Angelina Jolie quotes (page 8 of 20)
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"There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor."
"They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that."
"To do something good, it has to scare you."
"I'm not going to say how, specifically, but I will continue to speak out about human rights and freedoms. Absolutely. We can speak out about what we are angry about, but the most important thing is to try and help people understand the reality and not be blinded by something that is not the truth."
"I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway."
"I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie."
"I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer."
"~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~"
"Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about."
"If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them."
"In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day."
"And it is a very important thing to be and do, if not the most important 'cause how you interpret a story can then make the difference. So it is a very powerful thing to be. And when misused, it's very sad."
"I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like."
"And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father."
"I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids."
"I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there."
"People always slow down for a train wreck. It's like junk food. If you don't feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don't understand why it's there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better."
"To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."
"Films that I want to do are few and far between."