Top 250 Angelina Jolie Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.”

— Angelina Jolie

102. “If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!”

— Angelina Jolie

103. “The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.”

— Angelina Jolie

104. “We’re all just big kids. That’s all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.”

— Angelina Jolie

105. “It’s great to jump into things you’re not sure of and you haven’t done and that are a little scary. That’s what we have to do, as artists.”

— Angelina Jolie

106. “Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.”

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107. “I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.”

— Angelina Jolie

108. “Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.”

— Angelina Jolie

109. “We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world’s inability to protect and defend the innocent.”

— Angelina Jolie

110. “I think the global community always has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it’s in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis because displacement can can lead to a lot of instability and aggression.”

— Angelina Jolie

111. “If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.”

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112. “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.”

— Angelina Jolie

113. “Anything that feels good couldn’t possibly be bad.”

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114. “I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.”

— Angelina Jolie

115. “I think if you’ve never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.”

— Angelina Jolie

116. “To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.”

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117. “I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.”

— Angelina Jolie

118. “The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity, You know what you live for and what matters.”

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119. “The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.”

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120. “Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.”

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121. “I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.”

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122. “When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.”

— Angelina Jolie

123. “I’m drawn to kids that are already born. I think some people are meant to do certain things, and I believe I’m meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically.”

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124. “And my dad, you’re a great actor but you’re a better father.”

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125. “I’m a fairy. I’d come and hear, “How was your day, honey?” And I’d be like, “I was a fairy. I don’t know.””

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126. “I’m very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.”

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127. “The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn’t have a sense of purpose. But I’ve never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.”

— Angelina Jolie

128. “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.”

— Angelina Jolie

129. “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.”

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130. “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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131. “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.”

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132. “I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.”

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133. “It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.”

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134. “I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.”

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135. “That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I’m a mom, and that’s how I’m going to be all my life.”

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136. “I like to hide behind the characters I play.”

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137. “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.”

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138. “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.”

— Angelina Jolie

139. “The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, “I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they’re coming for lunch.””

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140. “I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.”

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141. “It’s all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I’ll go to an extreme. I’ll wear foundation, bright blue or bright red lipstick with one of my weird purple wigs.”

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142. “I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I’d never really been able to combine them.”

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143. “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.”

— Angelina Jolie

144. “I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It’s just not a real life.”

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145. “To do something good, it has to scare you.”

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146. “Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don’t get to really do it.”

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147. “I personally feel like, if you’re watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it’s really like.”

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148. “Cause a little trouble. It’s good for you.”

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149. “I’m not a single mom with two jobs, trying to get by, every day. I have much more support than most women, around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.”

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150. “I’m not a hugger. People make fun of me. It’s something that I have a hard time with. If someone hugs me, I hold my breath. Snuggling, cuddling, hugging, crying – all that stuff makes me very uncomfortable.”

— Angelina Jolie