I don’t want to be put on a pedestal. I don’t want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman. — Charlize Theron

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

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody’s woman. — Charlize Theron

You’re either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman. — Charlize Theron

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled. — Charlize Theron

I love being a woman and I love being feminine. — Charlize Theron

There’s an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate. — Charlize Theron

If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It’s the life that you lead. It’s the life that all women lead. — Charlize Theron

I think it’s interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men. — Charlize Theron

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that. — Charlize Theron

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We’re comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we’re comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there’s no in–between. — Charlize Theron

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

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go… it’s like a dead flower. — Charlize Theron

We value men more than women… straight love more than gay love… white skin more than black skin… and adults more than adolescents. — Charlize Theron

I’ve always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn’t flirt. — Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep. — Charlize Theron

I really love having an awareness. — Charlize Theron

I’d love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones. — Charlize Theron

I love that old glamour look. I think it’s because I grew up on it. — Charlize Theron

I learned everything about love, watching ‘Splash.’ That’s why I’m still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that. — Charlize Theron

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. — Charlize Theron

Yeah, it’s a little heartbreaking, for sure, i really love that character, and i’m so grateful that i had a small part in creating her. she will forever be someone i think of and reflect on fondly. — Charlize Theron

My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming–and–becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn’t become about me anymore. — Charlize Theron

That’s why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they’re fruits of labor that you don’t pick very easily. And I love that. — Charlize Theron

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever. — Charlize Theron

Modeling was never a passion of mine. — Charlize Theron

I always knew I would adopt. Always. — Charlize Theron

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful. — Charlize Theron

I think in life we want to challenge ourselves. — Charlize Theron

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. — Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others. — Charlize Theron

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That’s what I want for my son. — Charlize Theron

I am a relationship girl. That’s kind of just how I’m made… When you’re in my life, it’s actually very contained. — Charlize Theron

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’ — Charlize Theron

There’s always been a celebration of what is that moment, whoever I am at that moment in my life. [It] is a very real way of looking at beauty. — Charlize Theron

Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody’s actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son. — Charlize Theron

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

We don’t live the lives of Eskimos. We don’t need to kill animals for fashion. — Charlize Theron

Life is what you make it… and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be. — Charlize Theron

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels. — Charlize Theron

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. — Charlize Theron

I know what I’m capable of wearing in one lifetime and what I really need. — Charlize Theron

I don’t want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté–well if I don’t know it, then it doesn’t exist. — Charlize Theron

I don’t want to live in a world with blinders on. — Charlize Theron

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

In the story, I think as an actor you’re just trying to fit into the world. — Charlize Theron

I like what I do, and I’m very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don’t have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to. — Charlize Theron

When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work…. — Charlize Theron

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

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, ‘All right, I did that. — Charlize Theron

We Were in a relationship and then it didn’t work anymore, and We both decided to separate. that’s it. — Charlize Theron

I’ve always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work. — Charlize Theron

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don’t personalise my work that much. — Charlize Theron

You get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, ‘I believe that you can do this.’ — Charlize Theron

You’re very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it’s very tricky when you throw us all together because we all work differently. You want to get the best work out of every individual actor. — Charlize Theron

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

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking. — Charlize Theron

I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture. — Charlize Theron

I don’t try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don’t really like sympathy; I don’t like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you’re kind of trying to victimize someone. — Charlize Theron

Yet there’s a hunger in me still. I’m like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn. — Charlize Theron

You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you’re with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that’s encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co–star. — Charlize Theron

The day i became a parent, i vowed that i would always tell Them The truth in a way that They could handle. i feel like this is such an important moment for Them, for all us. — Charlize Theron

I look at my career and how I’m doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that. — Charlize Theron

When they watch a movie and they know that you’re in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly. — Charlize Theron

I’m always open to a relationship, but I’m not putting those feelers out there now. — Charlize Theron

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn’t that important to me. — Charlize Theron

I remember when gwyneth paltrow marrIed her husband brad and they lIved In separate homes and people made such a stInk about It, and I was lIke, thats my kInd of relatIonshIp! — Charlize Theron

It was a relationship, for sure. we were definItely exclusive, but It was for barely a year, we never moved in. i was never going to marry howard stern. It was nothing like that. — Charlize Theron

I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set. — Charlize Theron

I’m 50–50 on glamour stuff. I’d rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy. — Charlize Theron

The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used–there’s a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat]. — Charlize Theron

I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I’ll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for ‘Mad Max. — Charlize Theron

I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it’s maybe because I grew up on that old glamour. — Charlize Theron

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. — Charlize Theron