I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do. Angelina Jolie More Quotes by Angelina Jolie More Quotes From Angelina Jolie I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father. Angelina Jolie brother teacher father We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men. Angelina Jolie men long needs Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman. Angelina Jolie madness crazy love If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. Angelina Jolie love life death I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going. Angelina Jolie exhausted growing want I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me. Angelina Jolie happy-kid would-be kids It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war. Angelina Jolie real hurt war The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage. Angelina Jolie iran country thinking My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can`t find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I`m simply not excited about anything. I`m not excited about going to a film set. Angelina Jolie roles stars dull To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your familyyou have to know what you're capable of handling and how your children will relate to each other. Maybe if you have one child and that child has a lot of needs, you realize you cannot give more attention to another. Sometimes you just know as a parent. We felt we could handle more children, and we have a very happy, very full home. Angelina Jolie home giving children It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing. Angelina Jolie body littles pregnancy 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 acting-right giving-up 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 hard-times play character I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here. Angelina Jolie three beautiful children This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior. Angelina Jolie scripts behavior usual I removed the window [tattoo] because, while I used to spend all my time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, I now live there all the time. Angelina Jolie tattoo wish window On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young. Angelina Jolie husband girl thinking On second marriage: It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet. Angelina Jolie one-day scary thinking 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 home fun I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out. Angelina Jolie outsiders fearless punk