Angelina Jolie Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents. It's not a humanitarian thing, because I don't see it as a sacrifice. It's a gift. We're all lucky to have each other.

  Angelina Jolie

  Growing Up, Kids, Sacrifice

  "Angelina Jolie Uncensored!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

• You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Parent, Age

  "Do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman?". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. July 6, 2005.

• It's a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young but it happened. And I'm happy she's out of pain, 'cause I love her and she's my friend.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mom, Pain, Children

  "Straight from the Heart". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2007.

• 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.

  Angelina Jolie

  Choices, Parent, Firsts

• If you can imagine the area and the land in Cambodia, I mean there are hardly any roads in big parts of the country. The roads they have, in the rainy season, become just mud. So, if you’re somebody that has just one leg, or blind with no arms and you have children and you’re trying to work, and earn some money, and take care of your home, it’s hard enough to be a parent and do all of that normally.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Children, Home

  Interview with Jenny Lange, www.unhcr.org. October 21, 2002.

• 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.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Strange Places, Parent

  "Straight from the Heart". "Dateline NBC" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2007.

• 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.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Focus, Joy

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. July 16, 2003.

• What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.

  Angelina Jolie

  Pain, Artist, People

  "Domhnall Gleeson". Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2015.

• My earliest memories are of my brother, pointing the home video camera at me and saying, "C'mon, Ange, give us a show!" Neither of my parents ever said, "Be quiet! Stop talking!" I remember my father looking me in the eye and asking, "What are you thinking? What are you feeling?" That's what I do in my job now - I say. "OK, how do I feel about this?" And I immediately know, because that's how I grew up.

  Angelina Jolie

  Brother, Memories, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fighting, Thinking, Parent

  "Maleficent - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jason Palmer, Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your family—you have to know what you're capable of handling and how your children will relate to each other. Maybe if you have one child and that child has a lot of needs, you realize you cannot give more attention to another. Sometimes you just know as a parent. We felt we could handle more children, and we have a very happy, very full home.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Home, Giving

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