Angelina Jolie Quotes

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.

Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?

Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.

I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

I don't really care what people do.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.

I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it's perfectly normal.

I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.

We should give people the freedom to express who they are.