Charlize Theron Quotes

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.

We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.

To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not.

I'm not acting; I'm not playing me. People forget that their actions make them who they are.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

I can't become another person, no matter how much makeup I wear. Something of your own past, your experiences and personality always comes out in the role, and that makes acting very risky. You're exposed. You always wonder if you can pull it off.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can't really help that.

It's interesting, the acting thing. I think it must be a deep sense of insecurity that made me want to explore other characters.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

If I'm not authentic, I might as well as be dead.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

Have the guts to be true to yourself. Nothing more.

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.