Best quotes from Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first South African to win an Oscar in an acting category. Theron has starred in several commercially successful action films.

Since the early 2000s, Theron has ventured into film production with her company Denver and Delilah Productions. She has produced numerous films, in many of which she had a starring role, including The Burning Plain (2008), Dark Places (2015), and Long Shot (2019). Theron became an American citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship. She has been honored with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Some of the best quotes from Charlize Theron are listed below.

1. “Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.” – Charlize Theron
2. “Boys don’t really like big nerdy glasses. Not so much.” – Charlize Theron
3. “Get on my Harley and act like a guy.” – Charlize Theron
4. “Hey, I’m a girl, and we like to play dress-up.” – Charlize Theron
5. “I am a relationship girl. That’s kind of just how I’m made… When you’re in my life, it’s actually very contained.” – Charlize Theron
6. “I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I’ll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for “Mad Max.” – Charlize Theron
7. “I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.” – Charlize Theron
8. “I don’t like rehearsal.” – Charlize Theron
9. “I don’t think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.” – Charlize Theron
10. “I don’t try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don’t really like sympathy; I don’t like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you’re kind of trying to victimize someone.” – Charlize Theron
11. “I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.” – Charlize Theron
12. “I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.” – Charlize Theron
13. “I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.” – Charlize Theron
14. “I love being a woman and I love being feminine.” – Charlize Theron
15. “I love that old glamour look. I think it’s because I grew up on it.” – Charlize Theron
16. “I think it’s interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.” – Charlize Theron
17. “I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.” – Charlize Theron
18. “I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.” – Charlize Theron
19. “I think there is a part of me that’s always a little bit like, why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you’re walking in, take a look again.” – Charlize Theron
20. “I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.” – Charlize Theron
21. “I think we’re at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don’t want to live like this anymore.” – Charlize Theron
22. “I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged…” – Charlize Theron
23. “I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.” – Charlize Theron
24. “I’d love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.” – Charlize Theron
25. “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.” – Charlize Theron
26. “I’m always open to a relationship, but I’m not putting those feelers out there now.” – Charlize Theron
27. “I’m an Academy Award winner. I’m serious.” – Charlize Theron
28. “I’m not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that’s a cop out. I don’t have a lot of empathy for that.” – Charlize Theron
29. “I’m open to anything, dude. I’m open to anything. That’s what I would ask the aliens. I’d be like, do you watch ‘Game of Thrones?” – Charlize Theron
30. “I’ve never been a fan of labels. I think it’s very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them ‘They’re crazy.’” – Charlize Theron
31. “If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.” – Charlize Theron
32. “If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.” – Charlize Theron
33. “It’s so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that’s incredibly truthful.” – Charlize Theron
34. “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.” – Charlize Theron
35. “Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It’s about something greater. It’s about acceptance.” – Charlize Theron
36. “Oh my God I am so cool.” – Charlize Theron
37. “Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.” – Charlize Theron
38. “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.” – Charlize Theron
39. “So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards – well, you have no control over that.” – Charlize Theron
40. “The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if it’s not in the right hands.” – Charlize Theron
41. “There’s nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they’re not.” – Charlize Theron
42. “We don’t live the lives of Eskimos. We don’t need to kill animals for fashion.” – Charlize Theron
43. “When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.” – Charlize Theron
44. “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.” – Charlize Theron
45. “When they watch a movie and they know that you’re in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.” – Charlize Theron
46. “Yet there’s a hunger in me still. I’m like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.” – Charlize Theron
47. “You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody’s woman.” – Charlize Theron
48. “You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.” – Charlize Theron