As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and … - Charlize Theron

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If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?

Charlize Theron

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

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I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

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I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

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I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

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I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live. "

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I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

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If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?

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If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-

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