Angelina Jolie: I Don't Love Acting As Much As I Used To
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Angelina Jolie is one of the highest paid actresses in the world, but the Oscar winner's main passions are actually outside of the field. In an interview with the Financial Times published Friday, Jolie, 36, opens up about becoming a mom of six has changed her relationship with work.
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"I've never not been grateful to be an actor," she says. "But I think when I was younger I needed [acting] more. I was trying to question things in life so you find these characters that help you find things and grow."
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Now, she adds, "I'm older and I know who I am… and I'm less interested in the character helping me answer something… than in being able to answer it for myself, as a woman, as an adult, with my family."
Although the Salt star says she has no plans to retire in the near future, she admits: "I don't love [acting] as much as I did]. I love being a mom."
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Jolie and her longtime love Brad Pitt have six children together -- Maddox, 9, Pax, 7, Zahara, 6, Shiloh, 5, and 3-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne -- and the family is famous for their nomadic lifestyle. "Home is wherever we are," she says. But does she ever feel rootless? "Yes, but happily. I'm very bad at staying in one place. I'm also bad at sitting still… There's so much to explore in the world… So I love travel. If you can travel I think it's the best way to raise kids."
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Her directorial debut -- In the Land of Blood and Honey -- is a love story she also wrote, which is set in the Bosnian war. "I prefer [being behind the camera] to acting," she admits. "I think I've learnt something from all of [the directors I've worked with] -- even the ones I didn't like… I also learned a lot from Clint Eastwood about how to appreciate the members of the crew, empowering them to do their job."
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But Jolie doesn't plan to stay in the business forever. "As Brad and I get older we're going to do fewer films. I've been working for a long time, he's been working for a long time," she says. "We've had a nice run and I don't want to be doing this our whole lives. There are a lot of other things to do."
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She's a flop now, and with all the self promoting she does, you'd think she do better. Maybe she'll do Cleopatra. Every actress that ever did her won an Oscar. I wish she'd go quietly into her mansion, stop treating those kids like luggage, and start being a Mother.
good for her
Has nothing to do with the string of duds you've done, right?
i don't blame her, she's older and has a family now.
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Born with a silver spoon in her big mouth, she was introduced into film by her very well known and famous father Jon Voight. He starred in movies with her, and if it weren't for him and his "pull", and her bad behavior, this over acting weirdo, would be a nobody.
Good Bye , good luck and have a very nice day to all of you.
Mary Smith, her movies not bomb Salt wordwide 297K Mr & Mrs Smith 479K Tom Raider 2001 -274K..
Mary Smith her movie not bomb Salt wordwide 297K Mr & Mrs Smith 479K Tom Raider 2001 -274K..
Wow, most these people are still stuck in the past... her past. Either talking about her award winning loving relationship w/ Brad or her crazy childhood. What lame-o's..... hahahaha. If you don't like her, why feed into the articles relating to her? Obviously, she isn't leaving her career (which the title says it all) so why click the link? Of course, you women are obsessed with negativity... Gotcha, you are such huge lame o's.
Wow! Usweekly deleted my comment! There was no profanity! Are you serious? Is this mag pro-Angelina or something? Can you not post anything that brings up her psycho past???
She says she has no intentions of giving up acting (darn), but she doesn't like it as much. Too bad, I'm sick of looking at the self centered egomaniac and her whipped boy friend.
Imo, she is disgusting. No offense to the poster that says she "embodies what a true woman should be", but really? She is a recovering heroin addict that slept with and got pregnant by a married man. She also made out with her brother. Not to mention wearing blood-smeared clothing and blood filled viles. What kind of women do you hang around??!! Lol. Jk, but you get my point, right?
Angelina will not act any more? Certanly, something to look forward to.
Oscar winning actress..this over acting weirdo won a best SUPPORTING actress Oscar 15 years ago..and had lost just about every award she was ever nominated for. If she didn't tramp around with Pitt when he was still married, she wouldn't even be in the News other then for drugs, or whatever other freaky thing she'd be doing.
Good, get out of the News for a novelty, and go home with your booty call, and take care of the 6 kids you had to have. You stink.
Good for her & Brad, there is a lot of life to be lived away from work & they've earned the right to enjoy it by giving us, the public, totally awesome movies over the years, & before someone says how easy their life is, you go & try to do their job, then speak ...
why is the highest paid actress in the world?! She does the same type of movies/characters over and over again. It's so tiring, I used to be a big fan and now she doesnt do movies I'd see. I just wish she did something different.
Why is it, when someone disagrees, they are a jealous hater? I'm mean c'mon people grow the h&ll up!