Charlize Theron Quotes About South Africa

Quotes about: South Africa

• I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a generation that suppressed people and lived under apartheid regimes. I don't know how you can come out of that and not have an awareness for the world. I think that if my life had turned out any other way and I was working in a bank, I would still feel this way about it, because there's a connection to humanity that to me is really important.

  Charlize Theron

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: wwd.com

• Think bigger than society lets you think. And find mentors. My life is filled with people who knew me when I was 19 and had a horrible South African accent and bleach-blond hair and who believed in me in a way that was brutal. They were just unbelievable and consistent and smart. Find mentors who, every time you're with them, you're being schooled. Just absolutely schooled.

  Charlize Theron

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

  Charlize Theron

  Travel, Reading, Looks

  "My adopted baby is great…I never knew I could live on 4hrs sleep" by Grant Rollings, www.thesun.co.uk. May 15, 2012.

• I grew up during apartheid; there was never a day in South Africa that was just great. I love that I've had success as an actor and producer, but I know the thing my children will know most about is the work I've done with HIV. Success in life is all about humanity.

  Charlize Theron

  Children, Humanity, Done

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.

  Charlize Theron

  Culture, Feels, South

  Source: www.cnn.com

• I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.

  Charlize Theron

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.cnn.com

• I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

  Charlize Theron

  Sex, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.cnn.com

• It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

  Charlize Theron

  Hiv, Impossible, Aids

  "Charlize Theron's Summertime Style Is Cool, Effortless, and Surprisingly Meaningful". Interview with Jessica Kantor, www.glamour.com. July 8, 2016.

• Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.

  Charlize Theron

  Kids, People, Killing

  "Charlize Theron's Summertime Style Is Cool, Effortless, and Surprisingly Meaningful". Interview with Jessica Kantor, www.glamour.com. July 8, 2016.

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