Angelina Jolie

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.

Angelina Jolie

What’s risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.

Angelina Jolie

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

Angelina Jolie

You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.

Angelina Jolie

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.

Angelina Jolie

Acting is not pretending or lying. It’s finding a side of yourself that’s the character and ignoring your other sides. And there’s a side of me that wonders what’s wrong with being completely honest.

Angelina Jolie

Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn’t mean that they’re not educated. But we haven’t gone to law school and we’re not experts on policy. We’re just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

Angelina Jolie

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

Angelina Jolie

As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

Angelina Jolie

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

Angelina Jolie