Top 250 Angelina Jolie Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.”

— Angelina Jolie

202. “What decides where we are born and into what kind of life and why?”

— Angelina Jolie

203. “I’m hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.”

— Angelina Jolie

204. “First thing in the morning, we’re really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, ‘Are we ever going to get sleep?’ And yet, it doesn’t matter if you don’t get sleep. It’s an honor to take care of them.”

— Angelina Jolie

205. “You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.”

— Angelina Jolie

206. “I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it’s because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window.”

— Angelina Jolie

207. “Films that I want to do are few and far between.”

— Angelina Jolie

208. “Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you’ll be on track for the same future.”

— Angelina Jolie

209. “I’m able to be very effective because I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a Republican. So, I’m not tied, and I’d never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to.”

— Angelina Jolie

210. “Its just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can’t even imagine and has gone through horror that I can’t even imagine.”

— Angelina Jolie

211. “I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn’t live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.”

— Angelina Jolie

212. “I always hate speculation on the news, so I don’t want to be somebody who speculates.”

— Angelina Jolie

213. “All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.”

— Angelina Jolie

214. “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

215. “I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.”

— Angelina Jolie

216. “But we survived, and we’re a good family. I just don’t want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.”

— Angelina Jolie

217. “I have to concentrate on my son. That’s why I have lovers right now and not a boyfriend. I don’t want my son to start calling somebody Daddy unless that person’s gonna stay.”

— Angelina Jolie

218. “It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it.”

— Angelina Jolie

219. “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.”

— Angelina Jolie

220. “There doesn’t need to be a God for me.”

— Angelina Jolie

221. “It’s been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.”

— Angelina Jolie

222. “If you become aware of a public self, you’re in danger of becoming a very artificial person.”

— Angelina Jolie

223. “I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws.”

— Angelina Jolie

224. “I’m always doing something. I never shut my brain off.”

— Angelina Jolie

225. “Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We’ve at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space.”

— Angelina Jolie

226. “I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.”

— Angelina Jolie

227. “This script was just so much smarter than usual and I’m just fascinated by human behavior.”

— Angelina Jolie

228. “I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child.”

— Angelina Jolie

229. “I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.”

— Angelina Jolie

230. “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?”

— Angelina Jolie

231. “I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.”

— Angelina Jolie

232. “I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn’t know why. I felt like I didn’t have anything to share. It was a very empty time.”

— Angelina Jolie

233. “I don’t do things that are comedic. This is such a crazy idea.”

— Angelina Jolie

234. “And I didn’t know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.”

— Angelina Jolie

235. “With doing the movies I’ve done I don’t think I would be half the person I am today.”

— Angelina Jolie

236. “I guess that I’ve always wanted to be a Bond villain.”

— Angelina Jolie

237. “I’ve had a wonderful career and I’m very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I’ve had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I’m sure there’ll be a few more films but I’m happy that I’m able to be selective.”

— Angelina Jolie

238. “I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.”

— Angelina Jolie

239. “When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to ‘punk rock’ to be trusted with kids.”

— Angelina Jolie

240. “When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.”

— Angelina Jolie

241. “There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.”

— Angelina Jolie

242. “I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I’m fortunate.”

— Angelina Jolie

243. “I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.”

— Angelina Jolie

244. “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.”

— Angelina Jolie

245. “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.”

— Angelina Jolie

246. “I think it’s easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there.”

— Angelina Jolie

247. “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.”

— Angelina Jolie

248. “I’m shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, ‘What do you do for a living?’ I don’t know if I’ve earned that.”

— Angelina Jolie

249. “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.”

— Angelina Jolie

250. “I think I’ll be working a lot less as I get older.”

— Angelina Jolie