Actress Charlize Theron was born August 7, 1975 in Benoni, South Africa.

• "I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message."




• ""If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels."




• "I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron"




• "You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better."




• "Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up."




• "There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.""




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




• "They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen."




• "You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."