Angelina Jolie Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• There was a time when I was really going to give up acting-- right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine.

  Angelina Jolie

  Giving Up, Character, Acting Right

• 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

  Jobs, Growing Up, Fun

  "Angelina Jolie On Marriage, Brad, Her Kids & Pregnancy", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2010.

• 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

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "Acting and Politics Are Sometimes a Very Bad Combination". Interview with Lars-Olav Beier and Andreas Borcholte, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2007.

• What surprised me about directing is how much I loved it and how happy I am to be on the set. I love coming to work in the morning. What I realized is that I never loved acting. I don't love being in the hair and makeup chair. I don't [love] being in costume. To me the strangest thing is that I've just spent the majority of my life in one aspect of this business, and because I was fortunate enough to become successful I never questioned whether I felt at home and found out later in life that I'm much happier directing.

  Angelina Jolie

  Morning, Home, Successful

• 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

  Responsibility, Acting, Cameras

  "Angelina Jolie: 'What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger'". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 31, 2015.

• Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.

  Angelina Jolie

  Lying, Character, Acting

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