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I Remember The Days Of Auditioning And Being Nervous And So I Really Didn't Want To Make People Have To Jump Through Hoops To Do Auditions And Be Nervous And Make Them More Nervous. I Kind Of Wanted To Hire Everybody And Find Something For Everybody.

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I Remember The Days

Angelina Jolie

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I Remember The Days Of Auditioning And Being Nervous And So I Really Didn't Want To Make People Have To Jump Through Hoops To Do Auditions And Be Nervous And Make Them More Nervous. I Kind Of Wanted To Hire Everybody And Find Something For Everybody.

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There Is So Much More To Understand.

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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.

I Find Flaws Attractive. I Find Scars Attractive.

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.

And It Is A Very Important Thing To Be And Do, If Not The Most Important 'cause How You Interpret A Story Can Then Make The Difference. So It Is A Very Powerful Thing To Be. And When Misused, It's Very Sad.

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

There Doesn't Need To Be A God For Me.

Love Should Be That Person That Inspires You To Be A Better Person.

I Didn't Really Want To Live, So Anything That Was An Investment In Time Made Me Angry... But Also I Just Felt Sad. When The Hopelessness Is Hurting You, It's The Fixtures And Fittings That Finish You Off.

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 Think I'll Be Working A Lot Less As I Get Older

Films That I Want To Do Are Few And Far Between.

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.

And My Dad, You're A Great Actor But You're A Better Father.

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

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

Of Course {i'm Bisexual}. If I Fell In Love With A Woman Tomorrow, Would I Feel That It's Okay To Want To Kiss And Touch Her? If I Fell In Love With Her? Absolutely! Yes!

He's Amazing. He's A Really Dedicated Father. I Feel Very Blessed That Every Day I Wake Up And I Live With My Favourite People In The World, As Well As My Best Friend.

The Fact Is I Am Not Having Sex. But I Feel Absolutely Ripe For The, What Would You Say? Plucking?

I Can Tell My Children That They Don't Need To Fear They Will Lose Me To Breast Cancer.

I Think All Women Go Through Periods Where We Hate This About Ourselves, We Don't Like That. It's Great To Get To A Place Where You Dismiss Anything You're Worried About. I Find Flaws Attractive. I Find Scars Attractive.

I Believe The Only People That Should Be Around A Child And Raising A Child Are People Who Absolutely, 100 Percent Love That Child

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.

Women And Girls Are Bearing The Brunt Of Extremists That Revel In Treating Them Barbarically. This Is Inextricably Linked To Our Overall Failure To Prevent And End Conflicts Worldwide, Which Is Causing Human Suffering On An Unprecedented Level.

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.

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

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.

What Is It That Turns People Into Artists? It Often Comes From Some Kind Of Pain Or Angst, A Need To Understand Or Express Something. It Very Rarely Comes From Confidence, Being Raised By Parents Who Want To Hear What You Have To Say And Wants To Encourage You.

In The Films I've Done Recently, I've Been Learning A Little More About The Side Of Myself That Enjoys Being A Light. I Remember When I Used To Dress In All Black And You'd Say. "just Be Pretty, Hold Your Head Up, Be Proud. Be A Pleasant Person And Don't Cover Yourself So Much With Darkness, Your Need To Be A Little Crazy." Now I Have Nothing Against Anything I've Been In Before, Because I Love All Sides Of Me, But I Have Been Experimenting More With That Lovely Woman Side. In This Age Of Feminism, I Would Hate For The Whole Gentlemen And Ladies Things To Be Lost.

I've Told Billy [bob Thornton] If I Ever Caught Him Cheating, I Wouldn't Kill Him Because I Love His Children And They Need A Dad. But I Would Beat Him Up. I Know Where All Of His Sports Injuries Are.

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.

I Wanna Better Understand The World I Live In, And I Wanna Be Able To Learn How To Be More Effective... I Wanna Learn And I Wanna Listen.

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.

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.

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.

If I Make A Fool Of Myself, Who Cares? I'm Not Frightened By Anyone's Perception Of Me.

It's Hard No To Work, So I Find A Way To Put Myself Back To Work. And I Think It's Important, In Between Projects, For Me To Sit Down With Who I've Just Become And Allow Her To Continue To Evolve And Find A Home Inside Me Before I Go And Become Somebody Else. But I Think I Also Need To Learn To Relax And Not Prepare Too Much, Just Enjoy Life. 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.

If Anybody Comes Into My Home And Tries To Hurt My Kids, I've No Problem Shooting Them... I Bought Original, Real Guns Of The Type We Used In Tomb Raider For Security. Brad And I Are Not Against Having A Gun In The House, And We Do Have One. And Yes, I'd Be Able To Use It If I Had To.

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.

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