Angelina Jolie Quotes

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important.

One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

I think any type of setback you have, any tough time you've got, getting through it is what makes you who you are. It makes you a tougher person. I think whatever you've been through in your life makes you a tougher person. I'm very grateful for the background I have, every tough situation I've been through because it's made me who I am.

I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.

All my mistakes, all my accomplishments, the good things I've done, the bad I've done, and the mistakes I've learned from, the mistakes I've never done before - all of that made me into what I am now.

Everything that has come my way has moulded me as an actor and as a person.

I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

Every experience makes you grow.

I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent.

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.