Angelina Jolie is quite candid in the August 2010 issue of Vanity Fair, in NY/LA on June 30, and everywhere on July 6. Here are some notable quotables from the 35-year-old actress:
On having more kids: “No, I’m not pregnant [but]
we’re not opposed to it. We want to make sure we can give everybody
special time. They’re kids now, and can play together, but they’re
going to need a lot more talking in the middle of the night, like I did
with my mom for hours. We want to make sure we don’t build a family so
big that we don’t have absolutely enough time to raise them each really
well.”
On tying the knot with Brad Pitt:
“[We're not] against getting married [but] it’s just like we already
are. Children are clearly a commitment, a bigger commitment [than
marriage]. It’s for life.”
On taking a break from acting: “It’s not the most
important thing in my life. Acting helped me as I was growing up. It
helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand
life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very
grateful, it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury. Look, I’m at work today in the
middle of Venice. But I don’t think I’ll do it much longer.” Jolie says
this reassessment is mostly due to her family: “Because I have a happy
home….I got back from work last night, and everybody was playing music
and dancing and I suddenly found myself dancing around with a bunch of
little fun crazy people.”
On her many kids: “Mad’s
a real intellectual, which I can take no credit for genetically. He’s
great at school, great at history. He feels like he could be a writer
or travel the world and learn about places and things. Zahara’s got an extraordinary voice and is just so elegant and well spoken. Shiloh’s hysterically funny, one of the goofiest, most playful people you’ll ever meet. Knox and Viv are classic boy and girl. She’s really female. And he’s really a little dude.”
On how Shiloh dresses: “Like a little dude. Shiloh,
we feel, has Montenegro style. It’s how people dress there. She likes
tracksuits, she likes (regular) suits. She likes to dress like a boy.
She wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear
boys’ everything. She thinks she’s one of the brothers.”
On being most like Shiloh growing up: “Goofy and
verbal, the early signs of a performer…. I used to get dressed up in
costumes and jump around. But at some point, I got closed off, darker.
I don’t remember anything happening. I think you just get hit with the
realities of certain things in life, think too much, start to realize
the world isn’t as you wished it would be, so you deepen. Then, as I
had kids and got older—being goofy, lighter—it all came back.”
On Brad’s beard and what he’s been up to in Venice: “I love Brad in every state… He sculpts and designs. He makes furniture, sculpts things related to houses. Traditional male.”
On Brad with the kids: “I keep telling Brad he owes
me. He’s had a few months off in one of the most beautiful cities in
the world with the children. And he’s such an artist and goes to the
stone yards and the art exhibits, and loves being in such a cultural
place.”
LOOK: Angie on the August cover of VF
On a potential Mr. & Mrs. Smith sequel:
“People have tried. And it’s strange: do we have kids in the movie?
We’ve thought about that, but it becomes personal now that we actually
have kids. And if we work on it, we pull from our own life, which is
funny to us, but you feel strange sharing too much. We did ask somebody
to look into Mr. & Mrs. to see if they could crack a sequel, but
there wasn’t anything original. It was just, Well, they’re going to get
married, or they’ve got kids, or they get separated. Never great.”
On co-starring again with Brad: “I’d love to. We’ve
talked about it. We’d have to figure out who’s going to watch the kids,
but it’s really about finding the right thing, because we’ve looked.
When you’re a couple, there are certain things people don’t want to see
you do. It becomes too indulgent, too personal. I don’t think people
want to see people who are really together intimate on-screen. Maybe we
have to play bad guys that try to kill each other, so it’s just fun and
aggressive, not dealing with some man-woman deal.”