Like every parent, when you start your family, you... -Angelina Jolie

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

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Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received numerous accolades for her acting, including an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie is also known for her humanitarian work, serving as a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and advocating for refugees and human rights. Her talent, beauty, and philanthropy have made her one of Hollywood's most influential figures.

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I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway....

I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kin...

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It ha...

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I'm being smart about my choices, and I'm putting my family first, and I'm in charge of my life an...

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 wh...

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you...

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 g...

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There are so many people out there struggling with racism, or their sexuality or where they're brought up or how wealthy their family was ans these is...

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Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you....

One side of my family cooked this way, talked this way, celebrate this way, traditions is this way, and then one of the sides is different, and as a k...

Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family....

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity....

Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family....

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent t...

Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I mis...

I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical....