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I Realized That Very Young - That A Life Where You Don't Live To Your Full Potential, Or You Don't Experiment, Or You're Afraid, Or You Hesitate, Or There Are Things You Know You Should Do But You Just Don't Get Around To Them, Is A Life That I'd Be Miserable Living, And The Only Way To Feel That I'm On The Right Path Is Just To Be True To Myself, Whatever That May Be, And That Tends To Come With Stepping Out Of Something That's Maybe Safe Or Traditional.

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I Realized That Very Young - That A Life Where You Don't Live To Your Full Potential, Or You Don't Experiment, Or You're Afraid, Or You Hesitate, Or There Are Things You Know You Should Do But You Just Don't Get Around To Them, Is A Life That I'd Be Miserable Living, And The Only Way To Feel That I'm On The Right Path Is Just To Be True To Myself, Whatever That May Be, And That Tends To Come With Stepping Out Of Something That's Maybe Safe Or Traditional.

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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.

We Need The Political Will, And That Often Comes From The Will Of The People. So If Celebrities Or Personalities Can Help To Educate The People - Not Influence Them, Not Tell Them (what To Do) - Just Tell Them The Truth About What's Happening And Let Them Form Their Own Opinion, That Will Strengthen Them And They Will Push Their Politicians.

I Have Men In My Life. I Have A Brother. So Maddox Will Have Male Teachers. I Was Raised Without A Father.

No, No, No, I've Just Grown Up Too Much To Be Hurt By What People's Opinion Of My Love Life Is.

If You Don't Get Out Of The Box You've Been Raised In, You Won't Understand How Much Bigger The World Is. You Might Never Find Out That You Are Useful For All The Right Reasons - And Not All Those Stupid Things That People Tell You You're Useful For.

It's Just Such A Freeing Thing To Set These Great Challenges For Yourself, To Travel, To Learn More About The World, To Just Go Out There And Get Crazy And Get Free And Get Strong.

People Will Always Say All Sorts Of Stuff. Let Them. I'm Enjoying My Life

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.

I Went Through A Period When I Felt My Film Characters Were Having More Fun Than I Was. It Might Partly Explain Why I Ended Up Tattooed Or Doing Certain Extreme Things In My Life.

We Have A Choice About How We Take What Happens To Us In Our Life And Whether Or Not We Allow It To Turn Us. We Can Become Consumed By Hate And Darkness, Or We're Able To Regain Our Humanity Somehow, Or Come To Terms With Things And Learn Something About Ourselves.

Our Family May Seem Extraordinary In Some Magazines Or Something, But At Home It's Not. We're Really Just A Very Loving Family. We're Very Close, And We Don't Read Magazines. We Just Kind Of Go To Work And Come Home. We Try To Keep A Sense Of Reality Into Their Lives. What's Truly Real, Not Hollywood Real.

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 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.

Lots Of Friends

Maleficent Has Suffered Abuse In The Past, And There's A Reason Why She Is Now As Furious As She Is. And I Think That Children Who Have Been Outcast And Abused In Any Way Will Relate To Her. There's A Beautiful Side To Her; She's Not Just A Dark Person. She Has All These Facets. And That Is Interesting.

I Think What Children Can Handle And What They're Interested In Is Much Deeper Than People Assume. It's Why Sometimes We Make Things Too Simple For Them.

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.

By Remembering That I Don't Know Sadness Or Pain Like The People Do In The Camp And To Be Sad Will Not Help Them.

I Don't Do Things That Are Comedic. This Is Such A Crazy Idea.

It's Easier To Be With Somebody. But It's Better To Be Single If You're With The Wrong Person.

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.

I Just Started To See The World As It Really Is And It Completely Shocked Me And Changed My Opinion On Everything.. On Life And My Values And Certainly My Own Sense Of Self.

I Think The Global Community Always Has A ... Has A Responsibility To Any Humanitarian Crisis. And I Think It's In Our Best Interest To Address A Humanitarian Crisis On This Scale Because Displacement Can Can Lead To A Lot Of Instability And Aggression.

I Had A Lovely Experience Once In Africa Working With The U.n. 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.

My Kids Are From Different Countries, But There's An Understanding, You Don't Have To Like A Country Just Because You Were Born In It. You Need To Respect All Countries. And Be Very Open To Each Other's, Of Course.

If I Didn't Have My Films As An Outlet For All The Different Sides Of Me, I Would Probably Be Locked Up.

I Am A Strong Believer That Without Justice, There Is No Peace. No Lasting Peace, Anyway.

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. If You're Going To Spend Two Years Of Your Life On Something It Has To Matter To You, You Have To Be Passionate About It.

Each Person Can Make Their Difference.

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

No Matter What You Have Gone Through In Your Youth, It Is About Who You Choose To Be In Life. You Can Define Your Own Destiny. You Can Be Stronger Than A Very Difficult Past And Overcome It.

Becoming A Parent Has Just Completely Changed Me, And Made Life So Beautiful And Given Me Such A Center And A Focus And Such Joy.

Brad Got Me This Great Thing For Christmas. It's A Bookshelf That Has A Book On Every Religion. That's How We Plan To Raise Our Kids. Teach Them About All Religions. They Can Pick One Or Be A Student Of All Of Them. We'll Celebrate Kwanzaa For Our Girl. We'll Celebrate Moon And Water Festivals For Our Boys. We'll Take Them To Temples In Certain Countries. Also To Church.

I Was Absolutely Never Going To Get Pregnant. I Never Felt That It Was The Right Thing To Do. Now I Wouldn't Trade That Experience For The World. It Taught Me A Lot About Life, Just The Process Of It, And Now We Have Three Other Beautiful Children That Wouldn't Otherwise Be Here.

On The Superficiality Of The Industry: We Are Setting An Example Of What We Think Is Beautiful And You Really Want To Put That Much Make Up On Me?

I 've Been Married So Much In My Life That I Never Really Had Lovers, So It's Been A Fun Time. Hopefully The Men Are Enjoying It As Well.

My Kids Will Be Needing Me A Lot When They Hit Their Teens. If I Know Anything About Being A Teenager. I Need To Be Braced To Be Spending A Lot Of Time With All Six Of Them And Making Sure I Can Be There For When They Go Through Everything.

I Just Started Reading Lots Of Books And Then Called The United Nations And Asked If They Could Educate Me. The More I Got Involved, The More I Suddenly Began To Feel Useful As A Human Being And Felt Like I Was Finally Living As I Should Be.

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.

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.

Like Most People, You Listen To Yourself On The Phone Or An Answering Machine And You're Like, 'ugh.' So To Do Something With Just Your Voice Is Hard.

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.

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. It Doesn’t Shake Me Because I Know Why I Do The Things I Do And I Know I Come From A Good Place And So People Can Judge Me However They Wish. But I Know I’ll Continue To Do The Best I Can And Be The Best I Can.

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.

Violence Against Women And Lack Of Intervention And Man's Inhumanity To Man And This Kind Of Atrocities Are Going On. These Are Big Issues Of Our Times, We Must Speak About Them, We Must Learn How To Better Understand How These Things Happen So We Can Address Them.

Inhumanity To Man

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.

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