These are some of Charlize's most memorable and meaningful quotes. She always speaks her mind whether it be from a song, public function, or magazine article. This is what makes her so wonderful!!

"I think of myself as a highly sexual creature."

"I was always Mama's girl, and I always felt like her protector." - on the revaltion that Charlize's mother shot and killed Charlize's father while he was in a drunken rage. The shooting was ruled self-defense. "At first I found it really hard using three different English accents: South African, faking the American, faking the accent required by the job. I decided to make it easier for myself and just do one. I haven't lost my culture, just my accent."

"Women have conquered the world. And with everything we go through, it's about time we had a female president. I don't think we're that far away, but it should have happened already. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary Rodham Clinton runs - I really admire her."

When you go to enough events in a gown and you're on enough magazine covers, people like to start going, 'Oh, that's who she is. She can only be that. We should find a movie where she can wear an Armani gown' and that part of (the hiring process) is kind of hard,"

"There's so much about (the character I play in 'Sweet November') physically that I so relate to -- the baggy jeans and the T-shirt. I thought, 'Oh, thank God,'" she said.

"'In 'The Legend of Bagger Vance,' it was the hats and gloves," she recalled. "They made me all of a sudden go: 'I am a lady of the south now. Bring me mint juleps!'"

"I get so frustrated when I go to a movie and see someone waking up with perfect lip liner and blush up to their forehead and their hair perfectly curled and going, 'I'm so tired.' 'No, you're not!' I want to tell them. 'That's not what you look like when you're tire

"I do find myself having to fight my way through (the hiring process). In this case, with (co-star) Keanu (Reeves) knowing me from 'The Devil's Advocate,' they didn't necessarily question (whether I could do it). That was kind of nice to have somebody go, 'We believe that you can bring something interesting to this role,'"

"You have to surround yourself with people you trust, People who really know who you are and those are the people whose advice I trust. And when I get out of hand, boy, do they let me know, which is good because it is so easy to get caught up in the good stuff and I do find myself sometimes going: 'Why did we have to take that plane? Why can't we take that flight? Why did we have to stay here? And why couldn't I go there? 'You do sometimes, go, 'What's wrong with me? Why am I complaining?' You need to surround yourself with people you really do trust and people who really do love you who are willing to show you your flaws."

"A good beating helps every once in a while, And my mom's really good at that and they can't lock her up because she's a foreigner."

"in the beginning, it was so frustrating to me because my name is not pronounced 'There-on.' I changed it to 'There-on' because I was told it was more American. So, that was what was frustrating! The fact that I changed it to make it easier, so that people could pronounce it and then people kept going 'There-own.' The way we pronounce it in South Africa is 'Thrown.'

"Theron, heron? Very American, but apparently not."

"I never met another Charlize, But they did a statistic and every fourth baby girl born in South Africa now is being named Charlize. I am starting my own nation. I am starting my own Charlize population. Yes, watch out in a couple of years.