Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.
In 2003, Jolie published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries that chronicle her early field missions as an Ambassador (2001-2002).
“Without pain,there would be no suffering,without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes.To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”
“I want to be outspoken. I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free. And I won’t.”
“The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.”
“What nourishes me also destroys me”
“-I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free...”
“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”
“People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.”
“honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.”
“Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.”
“You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.”
“Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves you, and when you make somebody else happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world.”
“I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.”
“I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.”
“The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.”
“I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.”
“Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.”
“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.”
“If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.”
“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else. ”
“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
“I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.”
“I always play women I would date.”
“There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.”
“I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.”
“I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free”
“Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third”
“I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken. ”
“It was that I had started having sex, and that sex didn't feel like enough, and no emotions were really enough, I didn't feel.... it's like there was always something I wanted to break out of, feel more, be more connected to another person, something more honest... and in kind of a moment of wanting to find something honest, I grabbed a knife, and I cut him and he cut me back, and we had this exchange, and then somehow ...covered in blood and my heart was racing and it was dangerous and life... and... and it suddenly felt more honest than whatever this sex thing was supposed to be, this connection between two people was supposed to be. So I went through a period of when I would feel trapped, I'd cut myself because it felt like I was releasing something, and that it was honest.I had a desperate need, which I think most artists do, to communicate... to feel that whatever it is inside me, cutting or going crazy or whatever it is I'm feeling,... there's something inside of us, we wanna reach out, we wanna talk to each other, we wanna throw our emotions and our thoughts out and hope that we make some sense or we get an answer... we want to just emote and hope there'll be a response.”
“If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.”
“Without pain, there would be no suffering. Without suffering, we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”
“I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!”
“If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.”
“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.”
“Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.”