Angelina Jolie: Acting ‘Fourth’ On List Of Priorities

LOS ANGELES, Calif. --

There are a lot of things important to Angelina Jolie – and frankly, acting just doesn’t top the list.

In a new interview with ABC’s “Nightline,” Angelina said she has her priorities in order and it’s clearly family first.

“I’d say kids first…. kids, woman to Brad and then my work internationally and being a kind of… trying to educate myself and trying to learn about the world and… trying to do some good things while I’m alive,” the actress said.

“Then, so what is that, fourth?” she laughed of where acting ranks on the list.

And while her work in her most recent film, “Changeling,” earned the actress an Oscar nomination, Angelina admitted she rarely watches her own films – and in fact, there are some she has never seen.

“No, I just, I don’t really like to watch movies,” Angelina revealed. “[But] I love to watch Brad’s movies.”

And while she said “it’s lovely to be nominated” for an Academy Award this year for her role as Christine Collins, come Oscar night, her focus will be on another category – Best Actor.

“I’m rooting for Brad,” she said of her mate’s nomination for his lead role in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

But when it comes to her role in “Changeling,” Angelina said she almost didn’t take the part.

“I said I wanted to stay away from it because I couldn’t sleep the night I read it, just the thought of anything happening to my kids is something I didn’t want to think about,” she said.

Once she did sign on to star in the Clint Eastwood-directed film, Angelina pulled her inspiration for the character from her late mother – actress Marcheline Bertrand.

“She was just kind to everybody and never wanted to fight. And, yet, when it came to protecting her children or doing anything in defense of her children, she was very, very strong,” Angelina explained. “And that’s Christine to me.”

In her portrayal of the character — a single mother who confronted the police after they returned the wrong child to her when her son went missing – Angelina said she sees similarities in herself, noting she wouldn’t have let herself be bullied by the police.

But also one big difference Angelina sees from Christine.

“Yeah, I’d probably take him home,” she joked of the boy they tried to tell Christine was her son. “I’d adopt him.”

Hottest romances ignited by onscreen sexual sparks

In Hollywood, on-set romances are a natural side-effect of making a movie. When actors spend that much time together in close quarters, it's only a matter of time before one of them suggests practising their kissing scene a little bit longer ... and this time, without pants.

It's a tale that's been told many, many times, so in honour of the Friday release of He's Just Not That Into You, we're counting down the top on-set romances.

8) Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett, The Black Dahlia (2006)

Synopsis: Detective Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert (Hartnett) finds himself spiralling out of control in the wake of the infamous "Black Dahlia" murder investigation. As if falling for his partner's girl (Johansson) wasn't enough, he finds himself ghoulishly turning his forbidden desires on Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank), a woman who resembles the murder victim.

Denouement: Apparently, when Hartnett wasn't making forbidden affairs with Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank look boring onscreen, he managed to do it in real life with Johansson, too. Maintaining a stealthy, almost invisible relationship, the pair dated for two years before calling it quits in 2007. While they blamed their hectic Hollywood schedules for the split, rumours swirled that infidelities (she with Justin Timberlake and/or he with Sienna Miller) may have killed the snooze-fest.

Synopsis: When her husband is kidnapped by South American guerrilla rebels, Alice Bowman (Ryan) hires Terry (Crowe), a kidnapping-and-ransom specialist, to get him back. Through months of negotiations, Alice and Terry grow more and more attracted to each other, because there's nothing hotter than a kidnapped-and-possibly-dead husband.

Denouement: Why anyone would cheat on the deliciously yummy Dennis Quaid with broody, pompous Crowe is beyond us, but apparently, Ryan had a fever and the only cure was Crowe. The tabloids grabbed onto the extramarital affair and didn't let go, leading to Ryan and Quaid's divorce. But hey, it all worked out, right? Not so much: Ryan and Crowe called it quits a few short months later.

6) Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, The Break Up (2006)

Synopsis: The bitter aftermath of a Chicago couple's breakup causes them to continue living with each other in a bid to force the other one out of their desirable condo. Hilarity and resentment ensue.

Denouement: Like all of Jennifer Aniston's relationships post-Brangelina, this one a) makes no sense b) feels like a publicity stunt hooked to the release of a film and c) the dude hasn't been let in on it. After months of are-they-or-aren't-they tabloid frothing, the world stopped caring and Vaughn watched, and Aniston pretended to watch, a bunch of Chicago Cubs games. They split after about a year but stayed friends. The Break Up made $118.7 million US at the box office and was Aniston's first "hit" film.

5) Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Days of Thunder (1990)

Synopsis: NASCAR driver Cole Trickle (Cruise) rises to the top of the racing world and wins the love of Dr. Claire Lewicki (Kidman), a brain surgeon. Think Top Gun with cars, and a smidgen less homoerotic tension.

Denouement: After his divorce from Mimi Rogers, Cruise and Kidman married in December 1990 and instantly became a Hollywood sensation. Glamorous and incredibly successful throughout their decade-long marriage, it seemed like there was nothing the two couldn't do. That is, until they separated shortly after their 10th anniversary and divorced in February 2001. To this day, the dissolution of their fairy-tale relationship is shrouded in mystery. We do know that since then, Cruise's behaviour has become ever more erratic, in direct proportion to Kidman's increasingly strange-looking face.

4) Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Synopsis: Two sheep-herding cowboys (Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) fall in love in early 1960s Wyoming; over the next 20 years, they find themselves trying, and failing, to move on from their brief-but-passionate relationship.

Denouement: In the film, Ledger's character may have faked his love for Williams, but in real life the two actors fell head-over-heels for each other, eventually getting engaged and having a daughter, Matilda. Their simultaneous Oscar nominations for Brokeback appeared to solidify their relationship but, sadly, the wedding never happened; the couple broke up in late 2007 and Ledger died a few months later.

3) Jude Law and Sienna Miller, Alfie (2004)

Synopsis: Alfie (Law), a pretty-boy womanizer, works his way through most of the beautiful women in New York, only to learn his salacious lifestyle has left him completely alone in the world.

Denouement: After meeting on set, sparks flew between Law and Miller and they quickly became very serious. The couple got engaged in 2004 but, after Law's highly publicized affair with his children's nanny and Miller's alleged infidelity with Daniel Craig, they finally, mercifully broke up in 2006. Unfortunately for Alfie, a box-office bomb, Law and Miller's relationship received far more attention than the film ever did.

2) Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, The Notebook (2004)

Synopsis: In 1940s South Carolina, country boy Noah (Gosling) sees and immediately falls for local rich girl Allie (Rachel McAdams). Despite coming from completely different worlds, they experience a love so deep, so pure, that it made millions of boyfriends across the globe look bad. Thanks a lot, Gosling!

Denouement: As if the movie didn't already set an impossible standard for romance, McAdams and Gosling had to go and start dating in real life. The Notebook's romantic chokehold on female audiences elevated the actors to Super Couple status, making it all the more sad when McAdams and Gosling called it quits in 2007. The couple got fans' hopes up again when they reconciled in 2008 but before the year was over, the pair was dunzo for a second time.

1) Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

Synopsis: John and Jane Smith are bored with their lives and marriage. What they don't know is they share a dark (and sexy) secret: their jobs are a cover for the fact they're both deadly assassins. Things get really crazy (and sexy) when they're contracted to kill one another by rival factions.

Denouement: While both Pitt and Jolie deny their baby adopting, world-saving love odyssey began during the filming of Mr. and Mrs. Smith (and Pitt's then marriage to Jennifer Aniston), anyone who has seen the smouldering sexual chemistry the two share in the film has been left wondering.

Angelina -furious- about Aniston

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The Angelina Jolie Obsession Theory: Nadya Suleman, Octuplets Mom Speaks

Nadya Suleman, the controversial mother of octuplets may have an Angelina Jolie obsession. Jolie is quite celebrated with each of her babies, she has three adopted children and three of her own. Angelina is not married but has been with the baby daddy Brad Pitt since he left his wife Jennifer Aniston right after working with Jolie on the film, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Since Pitt and Jolie have been together they have added five kids (Zahara, Pax, and the three babies Shiloh, along with twins Knox and Vivienne).
The Angelina Jolie Obsession Theory: Nadya Suleman, Octuplets Mom Speaks
The Angelina Jolie Obsession Theory: Nadya Suleman, Octuplets Mom Speaks



Nadya Suleman has done Jolie several better, she now has a whopping fourteen kids, but like Jolie she has no husband. Angelina does have Brad Pitt to lean on and a pretty good film career. As an added bonus she sells the first baby pictures of her kids for mounds of cash, so at lest those kids come out of the womb filthy rich.

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That seems to be one of the many problems people are having with Nadya Suleman and though she may be able to sell stories and pictures about being a mom to fourteen kids with no job and no husband, she won't land the millions that Jolie and Pitt get with each baby.

Does she look like Jolie? Will she be able to tap into one of the Jolie-Pitt baby funds to help raise the kids? Michael K has the video interview with Ann Curry (uh-oh that's Jolie and Pitt's personal interviewer) and this, "Nadya Suleman and her cooking oil-injected lips, sat down with Ann Curry (good morning, good morning) yesterday to discuss her crazy baby loving ways. The entire interview will air on Monday morning and Tuesday night on NBC. NBC claims they didn't pay her for the interview even though there were rumors that Nadya was trying to get $2 million a pop." Check out some of the things she says, she has an uphill battle.

Biography for Angelina Jolie

Date of Birth 4 June 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name
Angelina Jolie Voight

Nickname
Angie
Catwoman
Ange
AJ

Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)

Years active 1982; 1993–present
Spouse(s) Jonny Lee Miller (1996–1999)
Billy Bob Thornton (2000–2003)
Domestic partner(s) Brad Pitt (2005–present)

Mini Biography


Growing up in Los Angeles, Jolie was no stranger to the film industry, being the daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight. She later trained and performed at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she was seen in several stage productions.

She worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles, and has also appeared in music videos for such artists as Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, Antonello Venditti and The Lemonheads. In addition, she has acted in five student films for the USC School of Cinema, all directed by her brother, James Haven.


Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress who has become popular by taking on the title role in the "Lara Croft" series of blockbuster movies. Off-screen, Jolie has become prominently involved in international charity projects, especially those involving refugees. She often appears on many "most beautiful women" lists, and she has a personal life that is avidly covered by the tabloid press.

In her earliest years, Angelina began absorbing the acting craft from her parents - her father is the Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and her mother is Marcheline Bertrand, who had studied with Lee Strasberg. At age 11, Angelina began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She undertook some film studies at New York University and later joined the renowned Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles. At age 16, she took up a career in modeling and appeared in some music videos. Her exotic good looks may derive from her mixed ancestry which is Czech, French-Canadian, Iroquois and English.

In the mid-1990s, Jolie appeared in various small films where she got good notices, including Hackers (1995) and Foxfire (1996). Her critical acclaim increased when she played strong roles in the made-for-TV movies True Women (1997) (TV), and in George Wallace (1997) (TV) which won her a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination. Jolie's acclaim increased even further when she played the lead role in the HBO production Gia (1998) (TV). This was the true life story of supermodel Gia Carangi, a sensitive wild child who was both brazen and needy and who had a difficult time handling professional success and the deaths of people who were close to her. Carangi became involved with drugs and because of her needle-using habits she became, at the tender age of 26, one of the first celebrities to die of AIDS. Jolie's performance in Gia (1998) (TV) again garnered a Golden Globe award and another Emmy nomination, and she additionally earned a SAG Award.

Angelina got a major break in 1999 when she won a leading role in the successful feature The Bone Collector (1999), starring alongside Denzel Washington. In that same year, Jolie gave a tour de force performance in Girl, Interrupted (1999) playing opposite Winona Ryder. The movie was a true story of women who spent time in a psychiatric hospital. Jolie's role was reminiscent of Jack Nicholson's character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), the role which won Nicholson his first Oscar. Unlike "Cuckoo", "Girl" was a small film that received mixed reviews and barely made money at the box office. But when it came time to give out awards, Jolie won the triple crown -- "Girl" propelled her to win the Golden Globe, the SAG Award and the Academy Award for best leading actress in a supporting role.

With her new-found prominence, Jolie began to get in-depth attention from the press. Numerous aspects of her controversial personal life became news. At her wedding to her Hackers (1995) co-star Jonny Lee Miller, she had displayed her husband's name on the back of her shirt painted in her own blood. Jolie and Miller divorced and in 2000 she married her Pushing Tin (1999) co-star Billy Bob Thornton. Jolie had become the fifth wife of a man twenty years her senior. During her marriage to Thornton, the spouses each wore a vial of the other's blood around their necks. That marriage came apart in 2002 and ended in divorce. In addition, Jolie was estranged from her famous father, Jon Voight.

In 2000, Jolie was asked to star in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). At first, she expressed disinterest, but then decided that the required training for the athletic role was intriguing. The Croft character was drawn from a popular video game. Lara Croft was a female cross between Indiana Jones and James Bond. When the film was released, critics were unimpressed with the final product, but critical acclaim wasn't the point of the movie. The public paid $275 million for theater tickets to see a buffed up Jolie portray the adventuresome Lara Croft. Jolie's father Jon Voight appeared in "Croft", and during filming there was a brief rapprochement between father and daughter.

One of the Croft movie's filming locations was Cambodia. While there, Jolie witnessed the natural beauty, culture and poverty of that country. She considered this an eye opening experience, and so began the humanitarian chapter of her life. Jolie began visiting refugee camps around the world and came to be formally appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Some of her experiences were written and published in her popular book "Notes from My Travels" whose profits go to UNHCR.

Jolie has stated that she now plans to spend most of her time in humanitarian efforts, to be financed by her actress salary. She devotes one third of her income to savings, one third to living expenses and one third to charity. In 2002, Angelina adopted a Cambodian refugee boy named Maddox and in 2005 adopted an Ethiopian refugee girl named Zahara. Jolie's dramatic feature film Beyond Borders (2003) parallels some of her real life humanitarian experiences although, despite the inclusion of a romance between two westerners, many of the movie's images were too depressingly realistic -- the film was not popular among critics or at the box office.

In 2004, Jolie began filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) with co-star Brad Pitt. The film became a major box office success. There were rumors that Pitt and Jolie had an affair while filming "Smith". Jolie insisted that because her mother had been hurt by adultery, she herself could never participate in an affair with a married man, therefore there had been no affair with Pitt at that time. Nonetheless, Pitt separated from his wife Jennifer Aniston in January 2005 and, in the months that followed, he was frequently seen in public with Jolie, apparently as a couple. Pitt's divorce was finalized later in 2005.

Jolie and Pitt announced in early 2006 that they would have a child together, and Jolie gave birth to daughter Shiloh that May. They also adopted a three-year-old Vietnamese boy named Pax. The couple continues to pursue movie and humanitarian projects.