I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff. Angelina Jolie More Quotes by Angelina Jolie More Quotes From Angelina Jolie 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 cameras acting responsibility The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy. Angelina Jolie car two school I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain. Angelina Jolie villain wanted Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political. Angelina Jolie law mean school 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 acting people thinking It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined. Angelina Jolie motorcycle kids ideas I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language. Angelina Jolie tape actresses theatre I think what children can handle and what they're interested in is much deeper than people assume. It's why sometimes we make things too simple for them. Angelina Jolie simple children thinking I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves. Angelina Jolie able people thinking 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 I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it. Angelina Jolie issues world thinking The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone. Angelina Jolie brother jobs book I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more. Angelina Jolie focus home kids I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off. Angelina Jolie brain I think all kids are curious. They're drawn to the bad guy and they're drawn to things that are dark. It's not just simply a desire to be wicked. I think there are things that frighten us in life and, especially children, they want to understand and take it on or understand it so it frightens them less. Angelina Jolie dark kids children When you have kids it's nice to have a place where they can always return to and some place where they will grow up in, but I never had that. I'm not attached to things and places. I like that we [the family] keep moving. It's a nomadic life, and I think that's a great life. I'm excited when we take our kids to a new country and they don't just immediately look for the comforts of home. They blend into that country. Send them to any place in the world and they won't be scared. They'll just feel like they can make friends there. Angelina Jolie growing-up nice country I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live. Angelina Jolie focus trying thinking I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them. Angelina Jolie film able action 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 I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director. Angelina Jolie ive-learned directors
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