Quotes from Angelina Jolie

Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third

I always play women I would date.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

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.

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...

I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn't sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it's because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window.

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.

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can't even imagine and has gone through horror that I can't even imagine.

It's the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, my son.

I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

I never woke up and thought, 'I really want to live a bold life.'