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"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."

"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."

"Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be."

"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've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble."

"All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough."

"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

"To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."

"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 didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off."

"I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off."

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

"I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive."

"I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy."

"Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!"

"I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me."

"I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street."

"If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart."

"Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman."

"If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."

"I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me."

"I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that."

"I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet."

"I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are."

"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 never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do."

"I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know."

"The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?"

"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."

"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing."

"And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father."

"Once you have six children, you're committed."

"I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine."

"If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up."

"They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that."

"Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy."

"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"

"I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit."

"There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate."

"First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that."

"I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark."

"I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that."

Big thank you to Orlanne Rancelot

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       The daughter of an Oscar-winner, she was destined for stardom. Despite acclaim for her acting, it's her bizarre private life that keeps her in the headlines. Vial of blood anyone? Angelina Jolie Voight was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father Jon Voight was an established Hollywood actor, who had earned worldwide fame for his performances in 'Midnight Cowboy', 'Deliverance' and 'Coming Home' - the latter winning him an Oscar. Angelina's mother was the part-Iroquois, part-French actress and model Marcheline Bertrand, who, incidentally, worked as Angelina's manager. Angelina's parents split up before she was two-years-old, and her mother moved back to the East Coast with Angelina and her brother James, where they lived in the Palisades, in the state of New York. Despite her parents' divorce, Angelina remembers her childhood as being a happy one. She was a huge 'Star Trek' fan, and showed her unusual tastes even at an early age, by having a crush on Mr Spock! Her taste in pets was highly original too, and she collected snakes and lizards. Her favourite snake was called Harry Dean Stanton, and her favourite lizard was called Vladimir.

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      At school, she joined a gang called the Kissy Girls, who hunted boys down and kissed them until they begged for mercy - until the school called a halt and the gang broke up! Money was tight whilst Angelina was growing up, but Marcheline made a point of taking her children to the movies as often as possible. Angelina claims that these family movie outings were what first inspired her to dream of becoming an actress. When Angelina was 11, the family moved back to Los Angeles. Angelina decided to get serious about her dream of becoming an actress and enrolled for acting lessons at the prestigious drama academy, the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. But she didn't enjoy her years at Beverly Hills High School, where she was constantly teased for wearing glasses and braces and for being so skinny. She also tried to get work as a model, but was turned down for being too short, too thin and too scarred. The teasing and rejection she experienced during her early teenage years had a disastrous effect on her sense of self-esteem, and at the age of 14, she dropped out of high school. She dyed her hair purple, moved in with her punk rocker boyfriend, adopted a Gothic dress code of black, black and more black - but more seriously, began to self-harm and cut herself. She even once asked her boyfriend to draw a blade along her jaw line - and still has a faint scar to mark the occasion.

      At the age of 16, Angelina split up with her punk rocker boyfriend, and decided to revive her childhood dreams of becoming an actress. She moved into an apartment opposite her mother, and secured her first on-stage role, as a German S&M dominatrix! For the first time ever, she also began to make the peace with her father. She realised that when it came to acting, he had a great deal to teach her. With her braces and glasses gone, she even succeeded in landing work as a model, and even appeared in the video for Meat Loaf’s 'Rock’n’Roll Dreams Come Through'. She also appeared in promo videos for Lenny Kravitz and the Rolling Stones. Jolie's brother James (who now called himself James Haven) had pursued his ambition of going to film school, and Angelina gained her first taste of screen acting by starring in no less than five of her brother's student films. She made her movie debut proper in 1993, when she was offered a starring role as Casella "Cash" Reese, acting alongside Jack Palance in 'Cyborg 2'. Angelina's role capitalised on her screen charisma and brash, upfront sex appeal, and before long she was offered another plum role in 'Hackers', a sci-fi computer thriller. Whilst on set shooting Hackers, she met British actor Johnny Lee Miller, of 'Trainspotting' fame, who played a computer wizard on the run from the police. Jolie and Miller worked closely together (she played a member of his team) and, before long, the couple were announcing their engagement in the press.

      The Hollywood gossip columnists ventured the opinion that Jolie's marriage was all part of her quest to find some stability in her life, since she’d lacked a father figure whilst she was growing up. But she and Miller were an outlandish and unconventional couple, and Jolie wasted no time in telling the press all about their exploits - in bed and out of it! Her professional life began to blossom, and the offers to star in new films started flooding in. Jolie co-starred with David Duchovny of 'X-Files' fame in the glitzy thriller, 'Playing God'; this film also starred Timothy Hutton, whom she also dated some time later. Then came a road movie called 'Mojave Moon', where she played a young girl called Eleanor Rigby, who falls in love with Danny Aiello - who happens to be in love with Eleanor’s mother (played by Anne Archer). Next came 'Foxfire', where she played a teenage girl who belonged to a gang who set out to kill a teacher who is bothering them at high school. By now, the major producers in Hollywood had begun to notice that Jolie was able to bring an impressive palette of emotions to her acting, and she began to be offered more complex and demanding parts.

      In 1997, she played the role of George Wallace's wife, in the biographical movie, 'George Wallace', which told the story of the segregationist Governor of Alabama who was shot and paralysed during his campaign to become President, a performance which achieved considerable critical acclaim. But whilst her career was going from strength to strength, her private life was starting to fall apart. Johnny Lee Miller was finding her emotional excesses harder and harder to deal with, especially whilst she was playing the lead role in 'Gia', a biopic about the life of Gia Carangi, a lesbian supermodel from the 1970s, who eventually died of AIDS. Jolie was awarded a Golden Globe for her performance in this movie - and to celebrate, she jumped into a swimming-pool whilst fully clothed, ruining her expensive designer ball gown. Eventually, Miller decided he couldn’t take any more, and the couple finally split.

      In the wake of her marriage bust-up, rumours were flying about Jolie's sexuality, and she fanned the flames by openly admitting that she was bisexual. She even confessed to having a relationship with the actress Jenny Shimizu. None of this distracted her from her work, however, and she was soon starring in a comedy drama about air traffic controllers, called 'Pushing Tin'. Her co-stars were John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and by the time the film wrapped shooting, she was already in love with Thornton, who was 15 years older than her. Once again, Jolie enjoyed an outrageous, high-profile romance, with Thornton openly admitting that he liked to wear Jolie's underwear, because it made him feel closer to her! Just as she found happiness in her private life, Jolie also struck gold in her career. She accepted the role of a mental asylum inmate in 'Girl, Interrupted', co-starring with Winona Ryder, and won an Oscar for her stellar performance. The Oscar ceremony was marred by rumours that she'd had an incestuous relationship with her own brother - which Jolie denied. She went on to tell the press that she'd only ever slept with a handful of people.

      Next came Jolie's first blockbuster role - 'Tomb Raider'. This was probably her most challenging role to date, for she not only had to learn how to speak with an English, upper-class accent, but also had to master a wide range of physically demanding disciplines, including kick-boxing, street fighting, yoga, ballet, car-racing and dog-sledding.Her character Lara Croft was faced with the challenge of defeating the illuminati who were trying to use a magic triangle in order to control Time - and interestingly, the role of her English upper-class father was played by her real-life father, Jon Voight. Lara Croft marked Jolie’s real breakthrough as a big Hollywood name in her own right - even though she failed to win an Oscar on this occasion.

      Having reached a peak in her career, Jolie then decided to pursue her humanitarian interests and began to become more and more involved in campaigns to help people in the Third World. In 2001, she adopted a Cambodian child named Maddox, and was made a Good Will Ambassador for the United States. She took her role very seriously indeed, and took time out from her acting career to visit Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Tanzania and the Western Sahara.She began campaigning for peace in troubled Sri Lanka, got involved in helping refugees from Chechnia and Thailand, and donated $5 million to an environmental wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia. When she turned her attention back to her career, she was offered the chance to make 'Tomb Raider 2', for which she was paid a staggering $12 million.Although she was flying high in her work, her private life was in trouble again, and Billy Bob Thornton left her in May 2002. She subsequently claimed he was far more interested in his career than he was in her and Maddox, whilst she was more keen to balance family life and her philanthropic interests with striving for box-office success. After filming Tomb Raider 2, Jolie bought herself a house in Buckinghamshire, and was occasionally seen out on the town with her ex-husband Johnny Lee Miller.

      She continued to give a considerable amount of time to the United Nations, as well as working hard at her career. After the highly successful Tomb Raider sequel, she accepted a part in 'Beyond Borders'. Here she played the daughter of a wealthy businessman who meets a visionary doctor and travels with him to war-ravaged Africa to help save lives - it sounded very much like a case of Jolie's art imitating her own life. Somehow, she even found the time to write a book, called 'Notes from My Travels', which was published in 2003.In 2004, she starred in 'Taking Lives', where she played an intuitive detective, and co-starred with Ethan Hawke. Hawke's marriage to Uma Thurman collapsed around the same time, and Jolie was blamed - but she denied the rumours, and was later proved right.Jolie then took a voiceover role of a glamorous fish called Lola in 'Shark Tale', rapidly followed by the futuristic period piece, 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow', where she played a sexy pilot captain. By coincidence, Jolie had recently gained her pilot's licence, although on this occasion, she didn't fly the plane for real, but acted mostly against empty screens.

      Sadly, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow wasn't a great box office hit - and nor was 'Alexander', Jolie's next film. Here, she played Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great, who inspires him to become a great leader and empire builder.But the offers kept coming for Jolie to star in new pictures. After starring in 'The Fever', a political piece directed by Vanessa Redgrave’s son, Carlo Nero, she was offered the starring role in 'Mr and Mrs Smith', where she was cast opposite Brad Pitt.They played a bored couple whose lacklustre marriage gets a shot in the arm when they discover that they are both secret assassins who have been hired to kill each other. Improbable though the plot sounded, the film was a massive hit - not least perhaps because romance had once again blossomed for Jolie during the shooting of the movie, and Brad Pitt’s marriage to Jennifer Aniston broke up around the same time.Although rumours ran rife, Jolie and Pitt remained silent about their alleged affair, and did not go public about their involvement until a full twelve months later. By this time, Brad Pitt was fully embroiled in the full horror of a high-profile Hollywood divorce. Jolie denied Aniston’s claims that she was a marriage-wrecker, and told reporters: "I was just a shoulder to cry on".

      Also during 2005, Jolie found time to get involved in Live8 and also visited post-earthquake Pakistan. She also adopted Zaharah Marley, a little Ethiopian girl as a sister for Maddox, and to her delight, Brad Pitt decided to adopt both children as his own. And in May 2006, Angelina also gave birth to her own child by Brad Pitt, Shiloh Nouvel, who was born in Namibia whilst the couple were over in Africa.With Brad Pitt, Jolie has finally found a partner with whom she can share her humanitarian goals and ideals, as well as her dazzling Hollywood success. Whilst it's certain that the twin challenges of her motherhood and her charity work will continue to take up much of Jolie's time, the movie offers just keep coming.2006 has seen the premiere of 'The Good Shepherd', directed by Robert de Niro, which tells the story of the history of the CIA through the eyes of a key operative (played by Matt Damon). But Jolie herself confesses: "It’s getting harder and harder to go back to work after time with children and my United Nations projects."

      In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary 'A Place in Time', which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week and features fellow actors such as Jude Law, Hilary Swank, Colin Farrell and Jonny Lee Miller. She also voiced the of part Grendel's mother in the animated adaptation of Anglo-Saxon epic poem 'Beowulf', directed by Robert Zemeckis.An Oscar-winning actress, humanitarian ambassador, femme fatale, author, pilot and now mother, Jolie has proved herself brilliantly adept at juggling her many roles - and hopefully will continue to do, for many years to come.Jolie has not let her busy career hold back her plans for an expanding brood, and on 15 March 2007, she adopted Pax Thien from Vietnam, who was three-years-old at the time.In May 2008, Jolie announced that she was once again pregnant with twins, and her and Brad Pitt's children, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, were born by caesarean section in Nice, France, on 12 July 2008.On 14 April 2012, it was announced that Jolie and Pitt are engaged after seven years together. No date has yet been set as the couple once stated they would not marry until same-sex marriage was legalised in every USstate. The actress debuted her diamond ring, which was designed by jeweller Roger Procop with the help of Pitt.

      Her role in Clint Eastwood's drama 'Changeling', based on real-life events, which premiered at Cannes in 2008, earned the 35-year-old her second Academy Award nomination.The film also saw her nominated for a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her portrayal of Christine Collins, a woman who is reunited with a boy who is said to be her son, but who is in fact a stranger.She took a two year break from filming after 'Changeling', only to return in 2010's 'Salt', a thriller in which she starred alongside Liev Schreiber.Despite receiving mainly negative reviews, Jolie's next film, 'The Tourist', saw her being nominated once again for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.  It seems even when she is attached to a box-office flop, she emerges smelling of roses.In 2011, she went behind the cameras again to direct 'In The Land Of Blood and Honey', which tells the story of a Bosnian soldier who encounters a former lover in a camp he now oversees. It caused some controversry amongst those who had lived through the war but Jolie's skills were praised by the critics. The same year she returned to 'Kung Fu Panda' and voiced Tigress in 'Kung Fu Panda 2'.

      She is currently filming 'Maleficent', which tells the story of Sleeping Beauty from the point of view of her evil nemesis 'Maleficent', who is played by Jolie. It is set for release in 2014. It has also been rumoured that the actress will be appearing in 'Salt 2'.

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