Top 120 Charlize Theron Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “You’re very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it’s very tricky when you throw us all together because we all work differently. You want to get the best work out of every individual actor.”

— Charlize Theron

103. “Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.”

— Charlize Theron

104. “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

105. “It’s so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that’s incredibly truthful.”

— Charlize Theron

106. “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

107. “You’re either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.”

— Charlize Theron

108. “I mean, I’m new but I’ve always been very interested in film making process and I’ve been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested – that the producer part of me was natural.”

— Charlize Theron

109. “At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.”

— Charlize Theron

110. “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

111. “I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.”

— Charlize Theron

112. “I’m very attracted to characters who don’t necessarily make it easy to be loved.”

— Charlize Theron

113. “The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.”

— Charlize Theron

114. “As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it’s so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.”

— Charlize Theron

115. “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

116. “I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn’t that important to me.”

— Charlize Theron

117. “You just don’t know if you’ll be around tomorrow. You just don’t.”

— Charlize Theron

118. “I think actors who know their job know that’s how you do it. You don’t show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who’s standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn’t need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.”

— Charlize Theron

119. “I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.”

— Charlize Theron

120. “And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.”

— Charlize Theron

121. “I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it’s nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it’s also great to not do it and not have the responsibility .”

— Charlize Theron

122. “People always say to me, “What’s wrong with Hollywood? They don’t want to make female-driven movies.” And that’s not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.”

— Charlize Theron

123. “I’ve never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them ‘They’re crazy.’”

— Charlize Theron

124. “I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don’t look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don’t think of them as like Charlize Theron films.”

— Charlize Theron

125. “I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it’s very immediate and I like that. It’s really fast. It’s got a pace to it, and that’s why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.”

— Charlize Theron

126. “I tend to, if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director.”

— Charlize Theron

127. “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 any more.”

— Charlize Theron

128. “I’m an Academy Award winner. I’m serious.”

— Charlize Theron

129. “I like what I do, and I’m very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don’t have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.”

— Charlize Theron

130. “I always knew I would adopt. Always.”

— Charlize Theron

131. “I don’t really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.”

— Charlize Theron

132. “When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that because it is a lot of work.”

— Charlize Theron

133. “I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there’s a lot of great stories out there, but it’s high risk.”

— Charlize Theron

134. “I’ve never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I’m fascinated by what the crew does.”

— Charlize Theron

135. “I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don’t personalise my work that much.”

— Charlize Theron

136. “So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I’m at a place in my career now where I don’t necessarily fret about that too much anymore.”

— Charlize Theron

137. “At the end of the day, I’d much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That’s not who I am.”

— Charlize Theron

138. “You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody’s woman.”

— Charlize Theron