The Wit and Wisdom of Angelina Jolie

Celebrities - By their soundbites shall ye know them.

By Daiana Feuer
Published: Dec 13, 2007
Photography by ©Globe Photos

Love em or hate em, celebrities make a living entertaining us with their words, eccentricities and occasional wisdom.

“I was very sexual in kindergarten.”
- June 2005

“I’m very strange in love. I’m extremely odd.”
- June 1998

"Some people go shopping. I cut myself."
- July 2001

“When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off. I sat on the floor and cried, because I was trying to pick out carpet color and I thought that I wasn't going to live to put it in."
- July 2001

“I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.”
- September 2004

“…If you're at all wild or at all provocative or bold with certain things or not stable in other ways or you have tattoos or knives or whatever it is, [people think] that you can't also be a really caring friend or a really good wife, or that maybe you don't like to be a girl sometimes and be cared for. Or be with children...”
- July 2001

“I think it’s funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It’s a little disconcerting.”
- November 2004

"I want you to know, I am exactly the same person I was before I became a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. I'm still a person of extreme emotion. I'm still wild and sexy!"
- October 2003

"I've opened [Billy Bob’s] vial, poured some on me. I've painted with it…I've considered pouring it on my clothes but I think people might be a little upset about it. I'm trying not to upset people."
- July 2001

“I recently had a column published in a newspaper and at the end it didn’t say I was an actress…And I was really proud.”
- June 2007

Along with an in-depth analysis of Angelina Jolie’s psyche, there are many things DAME editorial assistant Daiana Feuer is capable of providing at a cocktail party, such as advice on where to go camping…in Iceland. Like Angelina, Daiana eats meat and is fond of children.

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