1. Nelson Mandela said to me that he thinks he's not getting into Heaven, I said: "if you don't get in, I am screwed". 2. I really don't understand why anyone would think that you have to be physically perfect to be in movies, because it's so not true. When you look at the amount of MTAs that are successful, it's a minute proportion. You might get in the door for a couple of years playing the beautiful girl, but then Hollywood is going to be done with you.
4. And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.
6. Everyone says: "oh, she has such perfect skin and her hands are so beautiful", as if I'm this kind of untouchable creature. But I have never thought of myself as this exquisite thing. I think of myself as a very approachable woman. But people used to think that when I said that I grew up on a farm it was this schtick, just me trying to say: "look, I'm really a normal girl".
8. South Africa is my home and will always be in my roots.
9. 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.
11. I've always known I wanted a family.
12. Women have conquered the world. And with everything we go through, it's about time we had a female president. I don't think we're that far away, but it should have happened already. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary Rodham Clinton runs - I really admire her.
14. I don't feel it's my job anymore to be nice. In the beginning, if a stranger said: "your movie was great", I thought we had to be friends.
16. I always knew I would adopt. Always.
17. Well, I am like this far away from jumping on the couch like Tom Cruise, but I am not gonna do that!
19. We are not planning a wedding. Still, every time we get the Irish papers there is something in them about the wedding Stuart and I are supposedly having. It's like the perfect wedding with the flowers and music and Keanu Reeves walking me down the aisle. I read about it and think "wow, these Irish sure know how to do it - even when they're making it up".
21. If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.
22. If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
24. I suppose there is this little bit of a wild child in me just from growing up on a farm and having parents who were mechanics...I do like to think I've evolved since then.
26. I feel really lucky to have the body I have; I love it!
28. I'm not for the death penalty and working on this film didn't really change anything for me. If anything it made me more aware of how ineffective it is.
30. At first I found it really hard using three different English accents: South African, faking the American, faking the accent required by the job. I decided to make it easier for myself and just do one...I haven't lost my culture, just my accent.
32. (on the revelation that Charlize's mother shot and killed Charlize's father while he was in a drunken rage. The shooting was ruled self-defense) I was always Mama's girl, and I always felt like her protector.
34. I've always been very proud to be a South African and I've always been very honest to people about that. And whatever I can do in my power I promise you I will do.
36. 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.
37. You need to surround yourself with people you really do trust and people who really love you who are willing to show you your flaws.
39. From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying: "Oh, you're a single mom." I'm like: "Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping."
42. I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
44. They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.
46. Looks alone won't get you that far. It may get you in the door, but there's always somebody younger, somebody prettier. You have to rely on something else.
48. You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.
49. I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.
51. When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.
52. You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
54. What kind of stories can you tell with glamor? There are very few stories of conflict you can tell, right? I look for good stories; I'm not driven by anything other than good filmmakers and good stories. And then my job as an actor is to service those stories as well as I possibly can. The physical is the last thing that drives me.
56. I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.
59. And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.
61. I live a very simple life. I don't have to make those giant movies. I don't have a yacht or a private plane. As long as I can maintain this life, which is pretty low-maintenance and simple, then all of a sudden you don't have to worry about all that stuff. I don't have to take a job to pay a mortgage on a house I can't afford.
63. I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumor that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.
65. I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.
66. I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.
68. There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
70. People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.
71. I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.
73. I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
74. At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.
76. I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
78. I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
80. I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: "I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there."
81. I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.
83. I only worked on "Men of Honor" for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.
85. I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalize my work that much.
86. 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.
87. I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.
89. I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.
90. Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
91. I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.
93. I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.
94. And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.
95. I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.
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