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I Don't Really Have Girlfriends In Movies, If You've Noticed. Well, I Have A Few Girlfriends, I Just... I Stay At Home A Lot. I'm Just Not Very Social. I Don't Do A Lot With Them, And I'm Very Homebound. I'll Talk To My Family, I Talk To Brad... But I Don't Know, I Don't Have A Lot Of Friends I Talk To. He Is Really The Only Person I Talk To.

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Angelina Jolie

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I Don't Really Have Girlfriends In Movies, If You've Noticed. Well, I Have A Few Girlfriends, I Just... I Stay At Home A Lot. I'm Just Not Very Social. I Don't Do A Lot With Them, And I'm Very Homebound. I'll Talk To My Family, I Talk To Brad... But I Don't Know, I Don't Have A Lot Of Friends I Talk To. He Is Really The Only Person I Talk To.

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I Don't See The Point Of Doing An Interview Unless You're Going To Share The Things You Learn In Life And The Mistakes You Make. So To Admit That I'm Extremely Human And Have Done Some Dark Things I Don't Think Makes Me Unusual Or Unusually Dark. I Think It Actually Is The Right Thing To Do, And I'd Like To Think It's The Nice Thing To Do.

Love One Person, Take Care Of Them Until You Die. You Know, Raise Kids. Have A Good Life. Be A Good Friend. And Try To Be Completely Who You Are. And Figure Out What You Personally Love. And Like Go After It With Everything You've Got No Matter How Much It Takes.

There Is No Greater Pillar Of Stability Than A Strong, Free And Educated Woman, And There Is No More Inspiring Role Model Than A Man Who Respects And Cherishes Women And Champions Their Leadership.

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.

This Has Been My Life For Many Years; One Role Feeds The Other. 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.

I've Been Fortunate In That I've Been Able To Have That Balance As An Actress To Be Able To Do The Wild, Fun Action Movies And Also Be Allowed To Do The Dramas. Hopefully, If I'm Able To Keep That Balance, I'd Love To Always Try To Do Both.

It Makes Me Feel Like A Woman. It Makes Me Feel That All The Things About My Body Are Suddenly There For A Reason. It Makes You Feel Round And Supple, And To Have A Little Life Inside You Is Amazing.

When I Was Little, Like Maleficent, I Was Told That I Was Different - And I Felt Out Of Place, And Too Loud, Too Full Of Fire, Never Good At Sitting Still, Never Good At Fitting In. And Then One Day I Realized Something, Something I Hope You All Realize. Different Is Good.

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.

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.

What Nourishes Me Also Destroys Me.

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.

To Each His Own. It's One Of Those Things. How You Build Your Familyyou Have To Know What You're Capable Of Handling And How Your Children Will Relate To Each Other. Maybe If You Have One Child And That Child Has A Lot Of Needs, You Realize You Cannot Give More Attention To Another. Sometimes You Just Know As A Parent. We Felt We Could Handle More Children, And We Have A Very Happy, Very Full Home.

I Love Doing Action. And I Love Doing Dramatic Films, And I'd Never Really Been Able To Combine Them.

When Those Who Have The Opportunity To Speak To Those Politicians They Must Do So And If One Doesn't Have That Opportunity To Speak Directly, They Can Still Speak Indirectly And It Can Be Heard.

It Is Wonderful To Hear Of The Relief Efforts That Are Finally Coming To New Orleans And The Rest Of The Region, But As Well All Know, It Is Simply Not Going To Be Enough.

Everyone Can Help. We Can Educate Ourselves And Our Children About Other Countries And Cultures.

I'm With A Man Who's Evolved Enough To Look At My Body And See It As More Beautiful Because Of The Journey It Has Taken.

We Cannot Close Ourselves Off To Information And Ignore The Fact That Millions Of People Are Out There Suffering.

I Felt Beautiful When I Was In Cambodia For Tomb Raider. I Was Sweaty, And My Hair Was Matted And All Over The Place. And I Was Happy And Hot And Accomplishing A Lot And Running Around, And I Could Feel My Heart Beating, And I Felt Beautiful.

And I Didn't Know What That Meant For A Long Time. It Was Only When I Began To Travel And Look And Live Beyond My Home That I Understand My Responsibility To Others.

Nature Is About Balance. All The World Comes In Pairs - Yin And Yang, Right And Wrong, Men And Women; Whats Pleasure Without Pain?

I Loved Being On The Other Side Of The Camera And Interacting With The Crew. When You Are An Actor, You Have To Stay Inside This World, But When You Are With The Crew, On The Outside, You Are In The Dirt, Working Through All The Issues. It's Just A Different Way Of Working, And I Think I Preferred It.

First Thing In The Morning, We're Really Tired, And We Look At Each Other And We Wonder, 'are We Ever Going To Get Sleep?' And Yet, It Doesn't Matter If You Don't Get Sleep. It's An Honor To Take Care Of Them.

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.

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.

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.

I Think I Connect To People Who Could Be Written Off As Wild Or Dark, Or Who Are Just Full Of Fire And Looking For A Place To Put That Fire. It's An Important Lesson To Learn, And It's Something I Did Learn: You Live On Behalf Of Others And You're Happier And You Have Purpose. And You Have A Great Excuse To Have All That Fire.

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