Angelina Jolie Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.

  Angelina Jolie

  Character, Theatre, Evolve

• I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

  Angelina Jolie

  Happiness, Being Happy, Character

• I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

  Angelina Jolie

  Character, Hard Times, Play

  "Angelina Jolie on Her Insecurities & Finding Happiness". Interview With Hilary Rowland, urbanette.com.

• I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters, with the exception of the Maleficent's, were not little girls that I admired... the little princesses. They weren't characters that I identified with. I think that's very different now for my girls and more recent films.

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Princess, Character

  "Maleficent - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jason Palmer, Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

• I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.

  Angelina Jolie

  Writing, Character, Thinking

• And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.

  Angelina Jolie

  Witty, Brother, Smart

  "Angelina Jolie, Jack O’connell, Garret Hedlund, Miyavi, and Finn Wittrock Talk Unbroken, the Challenging Adaptation, the Coen Brothers, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 24, 2014.

• It's hard no to work, so I find a way to put myself back to work. And I think it's important, in between projects, for me to sit down with who I've just become and allow her to continue to evolve and find a home inside me before I go and become somebody else. But I think I also need to learn to relax and not prepare too much, just enjoy life. I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don't have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Notebook, Fun, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like to hide behind the characters I play.

  Angelina Jolie

  Character, Play, Behinds

  "Angelina Jolie on Her Insecurities & Finding Happiness". Interview with Hilary Rowland, urbanette.com.

• I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Notebook, Fun, Character

  "New Again: Angelina Jolie". Interview with Jon Voight, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2013.

• I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can act in many things, and you can try to experience different characters, but to direct is years of your life and you have to really love it and believe in it.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love, Life, Believe

• I think actors, because we're in the world of the characters and the movie, are more isolated, and it always really fun to wake up and be a family with the entire crew.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Angelina Jolie on "Playing Vivienne" in The Tourist, Becoming Ladylike, and Her Directorial Influences". Interview with Molly Goodson, www.popsugar.com. December 1, 2010.

• I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fun, Character, Might

  "'Salt' Star Angelina Jolie Dishes on Rebellious Past, Run-Ins With the Paparazzi and Love for Brad Pitt". Interview With Dotson Rader, parade.com. July 7, 2010.

• 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

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