Angelina Jolie on Her Philosophies

I've been through some things, so I don't take a day for granted because I could die tomorrow. I don't have any fears. I have very complete relationships. I live in a very big way.

There was a time when I realized that my hunger was never going to be fed and I got really depressed. I knew I could either not live or continue living, and I decided to live as completely as possible.

I had a therapist in school:I thought it was extra credit to take drug group and private therapy so I took it. And my therapist just really, really wanted to blame everything, all my problems, on my father. She thought it was impossible for me to be adjusted because my parents were divorced. I thought I was managing, but she just wanted to GET TO IT, know what I mean? I came in one day and told her I'd had this dream that I stabbed my father with a fork, and she was just thrilled. She was, like, happy I killed my parent. 'Now we're getting somewhere.' That was the end of my therapy. Today if I need to work things out I just drive a car around for a couple hours.

To be honest, I'm surprised I'm still here. I don't know why I am, but I am. I've always had this kind of feeling that the clock is ticking. Maybe that's why I choose to live openly. I don't have any fears about sort of throwing myself out there.

If sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, then I'd rather be completely fucking mental. Just because someone is open and uninhibited doesn't mean you should tie her down and shoot her up full of shit. The more people realize that, the more I'm free to be who I am.

I've avoided it and realized that if you don't read the paper it doesn't exist and you really don't give a shit.

Oh, God… It's - everything has become overwhelming. I did two heavy films-Bone Collector and Girl, Interrupted-back to back, and I was emotionally wiped out. I thought I was going to take some time off, but I got the 60 second script, and it looked fun. During filming, my divorce became final, so that was another thing. Also, a close friend of mine got very sick. I had stress from these things, obviously, and I didn't look well, my face broke out, I showed up on the set, and they said 'You go home.' Somehow it made a bunch of people very upset with me because they didn't know whatever was going on. I didn't feel like explaining somebody's private business, but you suddenly think, 'God, here I am looking really skinny, and I can't eat…' I can now, I'm fine, I just went through an emotional time. But when you do that in this business, you realize the ugliness of what the worst in their eyes would be, that [people are] thinking that you're sick. If in the future I ever was, this is how little people would help me.

I believe in instinct, something primal. If it feels good, it is. I like to live life in the moment.

The biggest thing is my marriage. The most important thing in my life - my family, my marriage. That's where my focus is and what makes me happy to get up every day.

I never thought I’d be settled or calm or ever satisfied. I always carried this crazy thing around, I thought I only lived like 5% alive and I can’t do this anymore and I’ll never stay in one place and nobody will ever really get inside me and I felt kinda empty. And now I’m completely calm and I feel I have so much meaning in life and I’m so clear. He’s (Billy Bob Thorton) just made me complete. I just admire him and have so much fun with him.

I like being able to be really honest. I’ll share everything always because it’s what I want. It helps me continue to do my work that way. And I’ve got nothing to hide and I like sharing with people and I like it when people come up to me and tell me things about themselves. So I’ll never change. And of course there are always going to be things that sound weird or aren’t explained so it’ll probably just get worse, but that’s okay.

People say to me, 'Be careful what you talk about. Don't talk about things that are weird.' But why are we all doing this if we're not going to be who we are? What's the point in writing an article trying to figure out who someone is, if the subject is afraid to show themselves to the world?

I think I'm never concerned about going too far because I've never -- I've never seen anybody do that. I've never seen anybody try and be brave and fall over, and I've never thought that wasn't brilliant. It was always amazing to me when I see people just be free and not care if they're judged, so I kind of counted on people to have a fire in them as however too much it was or silly it was.

My inspiration is everybody. I like everybody. I don't judge. Everybody . . . I find everybody attractive and interesting. So I get all of these different roles, and I can slide into one side of something I've seen in the world that I think is great, so I don't know. I'm fascinated by people, and I like to see them get up and yell and shout and be happy and say what they want and mean.

You just accept that you're going to hear rumors about yourself. But I know that truth, and my people who love me know the truth. That's all that really matters.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

The character in Girl Interrupted was the polar opposite. This was somebody who was completely unfeeling, completely uninhibited; sociopaths become serial killers, so it was the other side of life.It was actually what I needed - to break out. Because I had been so still, and I've cared so much, and my heart's bled so much, I thought it was going to be very, very hard and many parts of it were, especially the end. The thing is, her impulses are completely free. So I found my impulses completely free, more than a little weird and I was completely open. Then you realize how much we are restricted. This character could sit at a table, could kiss somebody, throw something, spit on somebody and could just say whatever she wants. To me she was heart breaking, and the essence of her was that she wanted somebody to talk to and be a friend. She wanted somebody to drop their guard and stop with the bull* and just admit whatever it is and be whatever you are and just stop pretending.

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