Top 120 Charlize Theron Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Boys don’t really like big nerdy glasses. Not so much.”

— Charlize Theron

52. “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

53. “I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”

— Charlize Theron

54. “My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.”

— Charlize Theron

55. “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

56. “I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That’s what I want for my son.”

— Charlize Theron

57. “I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.”

— Charlize Theron

58. “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

59. “As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it’s not all bad!”

— Charlize Theron

60. “I’m always open to a relationship, but I’m not putting those feelers out there now.”

— Charlize Theron

61. “In life we want to challenge ourselves.”

— Charlize Theron

62. “I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it’s hard for me not to. I guess I’ve been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.”

— Charlize Theron

63. “I’d love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.”

— Charlize Theron

64. “Get on my Harley and act like a guy.”

— Charlize Theron

65. “Actors – we’re selfish, but we can’t think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you’re going to do it. Otherwise don’t do it; otherwise why do it?”

— Charlize Theron

66. “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

67. “I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.”

— Charlize Theron

68. “Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.”

— Charlize Theron

69. “I think it’s interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.”

— Charlize Theron

70. “They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don’t see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it’s very easy to bore people, and that’s a killer. So hopefully that won’t happen.”

— Charlize Theron

71. “I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing and I don’t know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.”

— Charlize Theron

72. “The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we’re not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that’s for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.”

— Charlize Theron

73. “I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn’t get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want.”

— Charlize Theron

74. “You get yourself out there and you work hard and you hope that word of mouth kind of carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say “I believe that you can do this.””

— Charlize Theron

75. “I’ve always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.”

— Charlize Theron

76. “I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged...”

— Charlize Theron

77. “My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn’t become about me anymore.”

— Charlize Theron

78. “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

79. “I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.”

— Charlize Theron

80. “From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever witnessed. People keep saying, ‘Oh, you’re a single mom.’ I’m like, ‘Actually, I’m not. I’ve got two boys helping.’”

— Charlize Theron

81. “I didn’t grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.”

— Charlize Theron

82. “And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn’t necessarily given to me, and that people didn’t necessarily think that I would be able to do.”

— Charlize Theron

83. “I’ve never been driven by box office.”

— Charlize Theron

84. “And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I’d be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.”

— Charlize Theron

85. “Modeling was never a passion of mine.”

— Charlize Theron

86. “I love that old glamour look. I think it’s because I grew up on it.”

— Charlize Theron

87. “I look at my career and how I’m doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.”

— Charlize Theron

88. “I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.”

— Charlize Theron

89. “I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it’s maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.”

— Charlize Theron

90. “I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.”

— Charlize Theron

91. “I’ve tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.”

— Charlize Theron

92. “I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.”

— Charlize Theron

93. “In the story, I think as an actor you’re just trying to fit into the world.”

— Charlize Theron

94. “I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.”

— Charlize Theron

95. “I’d be unbelievably wrong to say there isn’t such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.”

— Charlize Theron

96. “You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you’re with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that’s encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.”

— Charlize Theron

97. “I don’t like rehearsal.”

— Charlize Theron

98. “When they watch a movie and they know that you’re in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.”

— Charlize Theron

99. “You can live vicariously through the characters you play.”

— Charlize Theron

100. “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