We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Angelina Jolie with her daughter Vivienne Marcheline in Maleficent (2014), dir. Robert Stromberg

Angelina Jolie photographed by Andreas Neubauer (1997).

I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

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ANGELINA JOLIE, ELLE FANNING and MICHELLE PFEIFFER Promote ‘Maleficent’ 2019 

“If you don’t feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don’t understand why it’s there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better.”

Angelina Jolie by Isabel Snyder, 1997

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Wino Forever <3 1. Beetlejuice  as Lydia Deetz (1988) 2. Heathers as Veronica (1988) 3. Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael as Dinky Bossetti (1990) 4.  Edward Scissorhands as Kim (1990) 5. Mermaids as Charlotte Flax (1990) 6. Bram Stocker’s Dracula as Mina Murray (1992) 7. The Age of Innocence as May Welland (1993) 8. Little Women as Jo March (1994) 9. How to Make An American Quilt as Finn (1995) 10. The Crucible as Abigal Williams (1996) 11. Alien Resurrection as Call (1997) 12. Girl, Interrupted as Susanna (1999) 13. Autumn in New York as Charlotte Fielding (2000) 14. A Scanner Darkly as Donna Hawthorne 15. Star Trek as Amanda Grayson (2009) 16. Black Swan as Beth Macintyre (2010) 17. Stranger Things as Joyce Byers (2016-2019) 18. Destination Wedding as Lindsay (2018)>

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Angelina Jolie in Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)