Top 141 Angelina Jolie Quotes

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

I didn’t even know I needed throw pillows. That was always Brad‘s thing.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

We will always be a family. Always.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it’s the most complicated thing in the world.

I’ve played real people before, but I never knew them.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

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 imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

The ‘Maddox Jolie-Pitt’ Foundation‘s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‘Let’s all just get along.’ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Every woman is different when they go through menopause, and… I didn’t know emotionally how I would feel.

Not many people know this about me, but I’m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I’m basically a natural blonde.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

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’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

It’s probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone‘s perception of me.

There’s the chaos surrounding the practical day-to-day – playdates, doctors‘ appointments, packing and unpacking, and organizing mealtimes.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven‘t done it. That breaks my heart.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‘Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?’

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

When I was little… I didn’t relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so – she was so elegant.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

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.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

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.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

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.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

If there is even one woman out there who went and got checked and found that she had cancer or she was positive and she caught something in time, and if in any small way I was a part of that, it makes me very emotional.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I love Brad in every state.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and 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, very warm home.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‘Tomb Raider,’ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‘Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

I’m always doing something. I never shut my brain off. I always have something going on.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

It’s a great thing about being pregnant – you don’t need excuses to pee or to eat.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

You just don’t know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for a transition. If you’re in a room, and there’s a kettle boiling, get a shot of it. Don’t worry if people think you’re nuts.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I’m doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

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.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‘Okay.’ And then I sit down and they say, ‘It’s math.’ ‘No! Not math! English, history, anything!’

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

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.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I cannot sit still.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.