Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see. Angelina Jolie More Quotes by Angelina Jolie More Quotes From Angelina Jolie I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past. Angelina Jolie moments live-in-the-moment past I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman. Angelina Jolie news-stories appreciate book I suppose I'm very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life... not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life. Angelina Jolie enjoy-life memories believe 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 princess girl character I hide my emotions mainly because you don't want somebody to know that you feel sorry for them, because they will feel worse, or because you don't want someone to know or see your fear. If someone like a sick kid or a burn victim sees your fear, they respond to how you respond. And if you show them it's terrible, they will get upset. It's something I've learned over the years. Angelina Jolie sorry kids years I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective... I wanna learn and I wanna listen. Angelina Jolie able world I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big. Angelina Jolie cry hate mother It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can’t even imagine and has gone through horror that I can’t even imagine. Angelina Jolie different gone country Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real. Angelina Jolie real home trying I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business. Angelina Jolie careers long believe 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 successful home morning I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper. Angelina Jolie morning lying thinking "What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that. Angelina Jolie musician desire thinking Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard. Angelina Jolie phones voice people I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't. Angelina Jolie great-relationship father I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out. Angelina Jolie important names book Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy. Angelina Jolie focus joy beautiful I think a woman is sexy when she's in nice clothes, flattering clothes. I don't think that being half-dressed in little half-tops... I don't find that sexy. Angelina Jolie sexy nice thinking Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them. Angelina Jolie inhumanity-to-man issues men I like to hide behind the characters I play. Angelina Jolie behinds play character
