Angelina Jolie Quotes

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months.

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

I have over 35 tattoos.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

Despite the great vision, it is only drop by drop that we squeeze the slave out of ourselves.

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.

I never counted how many tattoos I have, but I started getting them at a really young age, so most of my big ones are cover-ups.

I think it would be the biggest regret of mine - getting anything tattooed.

I did not always know I was gonna get tattoos.

Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.

I have over seventy tattoos.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.