Angelina Jolie Quotes
Maybe I was just crazy.
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.
To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and they are survivors, they are amazing.
Susanna: Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you, or me, amplified. If you ever told a lie, and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child, forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends. And by the 70s, most of them were out, living lives. Some I’ve seen. Some never again. But there isn’t a day my heart doesn’t find them.
I’m drawn to kids that are already born. I think some people are meant to do certain things, and I believe I’m meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically.
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me. – Angelina Jolie
Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We’ve at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space.
The centre of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.
I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway. – Angelina Jolie
Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.
With my family, I’m trying to raise them to have respect for all people and make friends around the world and feel at home with the world and really live a truly global [life] because I think it’s what forms them and it’s really important to me.
It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.
I know what it’s like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can’t. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.
I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the UN when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I’m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.
I’m sad.” “Well, everyone’s sad.
I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything.
I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.
Susanna: [narrating] Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60s. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted.
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Angelina Jolie Quotes about Cancer
For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices.
I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action. It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
I know my children will never have to say, ‘Mom died of ovarian cancer.’
Angelina Jolie Quotes about Charity
That’s the reason we kind of exist. It’s like our Job. To give to each other. And learn from each other. To capture moments of people. So it’s really strange to have somebody ignore the obvious human being right in front of them.
I am the kind of person who doesn’t recognize borders. I don’t understand why we think it is okay to keep someone within one border when they are unable to feed their family when they could be getting help somewhere else. I don’t see people as different so I don’t understand the idea of borders in this world.
Save one-third, live on one-third and give away one-third.
I don’t understand why some things are talked about and others are not. I don’t know why I think I can make any kind of difference. All I know is that I want to.
Angelina Jolie Quotes on Motherhood
I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I’m fortunate.
Like every mother, my wish – every birthday – is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.
The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop. That’s who you are!
There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.
Angelina Jolie Quotes on Adoption
When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents. It’s not a humanitarian thing, because I don’t see it as a sacrifice. It’s a gift. We’re all lucky to have each other.
I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child.
Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.
The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!
Angelina Jolie Feminist Quotes
For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices.
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict… There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex — everything to do with power. It is done to torture and humiliate innocent people and often very young children.
Angelina Jolie Quotes Girl Interrupted
I had a headache.
Razors pain you, rivers are damp Acid stains you, drugs cause cramps Guns aren’t lawful, nooses give Gas smells awful, you might as well live.
Susanna, four days ago, you chased a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka.
Lisa: [Southern accent] Razors pain you, rivers are damp / Acid stains you, drugs cause cramps / Gun aren’t lawful, nooses give / Gas smells awful, you might as well live.
Angelina Jolie Quotes about Refugees
If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift… the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.
I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it’s a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.
I’d like there to be less refugees. I’d like all girls to go to school. That’s what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.
Angelina Jolie Quotes on Beauty
I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.
We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?
I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.
I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.
Angelina Jolie Quotes about Humanitarian
I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict – for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?
My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can’t find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I’m simply not excited about anything. I’m not excited about going to a film set.
I don’t think any one person or any one organization should have the final word. That being said, I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.
Angelina Jolie Quotes about Breast Cancer
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear if they will lose me to breast cancer.
Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.
I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
Angelina Jolie Quotes on Poverty
we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.
Angelina Jolie Quotes on Hijab
The sun doesn’t lose it’s beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn’t fade when being covered by a Hijab.
Angelina Jolie Quotes about Love
To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.
I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.
Angelina Jolie Quotes about Helping Others
What nourishes me also destroys me
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
