The Changeling actress touches upon a variety of subjects, from family life to her past to whether she ever plans to get married.
Here are some highlights:
Angelina on how having kids changed her: “The kids are my priority, so it’s possible that from now on I will make fewer movies. I may even stop altogether. I no longer have the ambition I had in my 20s.”Angelina on coming into her own as a mother: “In reality my life is a lot more chaotic and adventurous now. Brad [Pitt] and I pilot airplanes, we travel non-stop, we go to difficult places and we have chosen to do it taking all of the kids with us. I feel a lot braver now than when I was an angry young woman.”
Angelina on her past: “I knew little about the world and I was completely self-absorbed. It was only when I came out of my shell and started taking care of others that I found the real Angelina.”
Angelina on how her children have inherited her taste for globe-trotting: “Sure I am still restless, but do you know that my kids are the same way? We were in France these last few months and after a while they started asking when we could get back on a plane.”
Angelina on why she travels everywhere with her kids: “I want them to be able to walk through a marketplace in Adis Ababa and not bat and eye, not think it is dirty and ugly, but that it just represents another part of the world and humanity.”
Angelina on tying the knot: “Usually people fall in love and everything revolves around the ritual of marriage, children are an afterthought. We did everything backwards. But sooner or later it will be the kids who ask us [to get married]. You know, they see films and start asking questions. Such as, ‘Why are Shrek and Fiona married and you’re not?’”
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this is like the 10th time she has threatened to quit acting. she says it each time she has a new movie out. she is such a manipulative media whore. this is just the latest example. she is saying it to look like a good mom and to get people to see her “final” movie.
She always does this. Gives away really personal info just to sell a movie.
riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. i can see her doing fewer movies though. it’s nice that she can THINK of quitting, though highly unlikely. if it’s a job you love, you always go back for a project here and there.
she’s pretty much has gotten a chance to do everything a person dreams of doing in a lifetime. lucky bitch! LOL
OMG - I cant believe that I am in the same boat as all above posters
I am shocked to high hell!
Good, I think she should stop making movies. Most of the ones she is in suck anyway, so who cares?
I love her.
Angelina Jolie and Darfur
By Nicholas Kristof
The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s new website, has a slightly snarky essay about Angelina Jolie titled, “She’s Actually Smart.†It’s based on Angelina’s comments at the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday to open a panel discussion that I was on.
Well, of course she’s smart. I find the snarkiness condescending, a reflection of the general snobbiness in the humanitarian community about celebrities trying to do good work. The assumption is that if the tabloids have an interest in who someone might be sleeping with, that person is an airhead. In fact, of course, there are smart celebrities and dumb ones; there are those who try to rehabilitate a sullied image by feigning an interest in AIDS or poverty, and there are those who genuinely care. There needn’t be any pejorative presumption about a celebrity’s intellect or commitment just because he or she is a great actor. And on the whole, the celebrity interest in Africa and global poverty has been a terrific thing, and there are lots of people alive today because of their involvement.
Some of them also really know what they’re talking about. Bono knows G-8 poverty policy issues better than I do. Mia Farrow beat the news media in getting good photographs of the Janjaweed in Darfur. Ashley Judd has been to rural Bihar, India, to learn about sex trafficking. Ben Affleck knows Congo and South Sudan inside out. George Clooney has done more for Darfur than the White House National Security Council. And Angelina Jolie has traveled and visited with refugees and desperate people all over, including three trips to the greater Darfur area, if I remember right. That’s two more trips than Condi Rice has made.
(Note to stars out there looking for good causes: one of the great issues that is sitting out there, unclaimed, is maternal mortality — the half million women each year who die in childbirth simply because they are poor, rural and female. Oprah Winfrey has tackled maternal health at the edges, in Ethiopia, but it’s a vast problem that never gets adequate attention. So grab it!)
One of the perennial problems for humanitarian crises is that no one pays attention, and so these crises never get resources. That’s partly a problem of the news media, especially television, and partly a problem of politicians who just aren’t interested in distant problems that don’t have quick-fix solutions. But celebrities carry a spotlight with them, and if they can use some of that glow to highlight the needs of Darfur, Congo or Chad, that saves lives.
Frankly, if a celebrity isn’t genuinely interested in poverty and is simply trying to get good press, there are better ways to do it. Traveling to Darfur or Congo is dangerous, expensive and uncomfortable, and the outhouses have bats, scorpions and camel spiders. But if a celebrity is willing to put up with such challenges, he or she can get public attention in a way that no one else can. I once was on a panel where Angelina’s eyes filled up as she spoke of Iraqi refugees she had met in Syria; for anybody who was there, that scene was worth 100 of my columns. And ditto for her speech on Friday at the Council on Foreign Relations.
So let’s lay off the snarkiness. Until we have an administration that cares about these issues, we have to accept moral leadership where we can find it — and that includes celebrities who care.
She won’t quit - she has been saying that for the last three years now. Reallly if she wants to quit just do it! Quit talking about it.
SHE’S A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE.
she’s a phony beeyotch who craves attention
my comment above was not meant to be negative. i just don’t think she’d quit, only thinking about the idea.
there’s a difference between saying “i’m stopping” and “i may even stop”
OMG…shut your piehole BITCH!!! (Manipulative admitted manstealing media whore) sorry all you Brangeloonies, but this bitch is so sickening. 8*Whew** there I said it!
Man I thought I was the only one tierd off her bullshit interviews. I couldn’t care less if she quits or not, i don’t like her movies therefore won’t watch them. The whole seductive mistress thing gets fucking old after a while.
Yes its very tiring to hear the same thing over and over again, but she is lovely and take into account that she is overexposed due to the fact that everyone wants that Jolie Interview.
Angie has been saying that since Maddox was born about holding back on her movies.. And now that she
has Brad she won’t marry him.. After 2 failed marriages she won’t be doing it again..
Why wasn’t she at the Women’s Convention in California instead of Jennifer Lopez … Since Angie has done a lot more than Jlo has..
The women’s convention is a big fat joke. All it is is a vanity project for maria shriver. Bunch of people sitting around patting themselves on the back. Hell that’s JLo was there. Talk about the most shallow person in hollywood.
OH.SHUT.UP.ALREADY.ANGELINA.WE.KNOW.HOW.FABULOUS.YOUR.LIFE.IS.
WE.HEARD.YOU.THE.100.FIRST.TIMES,
SHUT.THE.FUCK.UP.
K.THANKS.
Yes I like this woman. My only problem is with her trying to justify all the moving around by citing the children as wanting it. Uh…No. Kids are trained and primed by their circumstances and upbringing. She has to be smart emough to know there is a risk that while the kids do become sensitized to the fact a whole big wonderful world does exist, they also can be formed into always feeling unsatisfied with the status quo, which can lead to depression or even anger issues. Maybe, maybe not. Hope not.
I feel so sorry for those kids! Angelina is a media whore and Brad is her bitch. And I am so glad I cancelled my subscription to Vanity Fair and People magazines. Both of those magazines are shills for the Jolie-Pitt gang.
I don’t think she’s threatening to give up acting, she is just saying that she is starting to see motherhood as a more attractive option now than starring in movies. That’s only natural. I think she makes a very strong point when she says she would like her children to accept other cultures and not blink an eye in different places. It would be amazing to have a parent who wanted that for you and helped you open your eyes to different cultures and lifestyles at such a young age. I think those kids are so lucky to have two parents that obviously adore them and include them in just about everything they do.
Who cares if what the article says. Would you look at that picture?
OMG - She is so freaking GORGEOUS!
Angie was in Afghanistian Wed and Thur for a trip for UNHCR in her role as a goodwill ambassador .