“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.”

“All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.”

“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.”

“Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy's life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.”

“Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.”

“Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.”

“First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.”

“Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'”

“Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.”

“I always play women I would date.”

“I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.”

“I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.”

“I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.”

“I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.”

“I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.”

“I don't believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.”

“I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.”

“I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.”

“I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.”

“I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.”

“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.”

“I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice, and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.”

“I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.”

“I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.”

“I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.”

“I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.”

“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.”

“I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.”

“I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.”

“I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.”

“I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.”

“I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.”

“I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.”

“I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.”

“I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.”

“I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.”

“I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.”

“I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.”

“I think the depth, what children can handle and what they're interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.”

“I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.”

“I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with.”

“I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.”

“I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.”

“I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.”

“If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.”

“If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.”

“If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.”

“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.”

“If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.”

“If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.”

“If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!”

“I'm a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it's not going to upset her.”

“I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off. I always have something going on.”

“I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.”

“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.”

“I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.”

“I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.”

“I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.”

“I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.”

“I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.”

“In my father's generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing.”

“It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You're suddenly somebody's wife. And you're like, 'Oh, I'm half of a couple now. I've lost me.'”

“It's a great thing about being pregnant - you don't need excuses to pee or to eat.”

“It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.”

“I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.”

“I've learned that we all change constantly. It's rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.”

“I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.”

“I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.”

“I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.”

“Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.”

“Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.”

“Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.”

“Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She's bigger than me. She's on a different level of performance that I have never done.”

“My children love Maleficent's voice, so they always make me do it at home.”

“My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.”

“Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.”

“Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!”

“Once you have six children, you're committed.”

“People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear that people think I'm not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I'm nuts.”

“Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting.”

“Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.”

“The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?”

“The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop!”

“The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.”

“The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.”

“The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.”

“The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.”

“Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.”

“There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.”

“There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.”

“There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.”

“They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.”

“To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.”

“War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.”

“What nourishes me also destroys me.”

“When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.”

“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”

“When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.”

“When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant.”

“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.”

“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.”

“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”

“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”

“Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.”