Charlize Theron Quotes

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.

If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.

Everyone has a voice, and I don't think mine is that different.

I'm quite shy and I absolutely love my job - if you'd call it a job - and I like everything that goes along with it, but I think away from that I'm probably no more interesting or special than anyone else, and so I really like just doing normal stuff, as I'm sure most people in our team do.

I feel like I've just got to be me and let my play speak for itself.

When I started, I'd hear other people saying, 'God, she's so bizarre-looking,' because I didn't look like the girl next door. But I was just normal. I was the girl next door. There were people in high fashion I could better relate to who were doing something more interesting and not talking this sort of rubbish.

I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn't trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn't think of myself as liberated, and I don't believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn't know any other way to be, or any other way to live.

I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.

It's not about celebrity or not. It's all about, do you have that 'girl in a cardigan' in you. You gotta have that.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

I'm not a person who comes with bodyguards. I'm a simple jhola-kurta kind of girl. So people treat me as a buddy.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.