Angelina Jolie's mother taught her to be warm and gentle with her kids

Angelina Jolie's late mother Marcheline Bertrand taught her to be warm and gentle with her kids.

She told the Australia's Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, "My mother was very gentle"

"I can be many things in my work and in my life, but I am very warm and gentle with my children. That kindness and warmth is a foundation that's unbelievably important".

"She gave me many other things and taught me many lessons. But if you don't have that base, to feel valued and safe, then it's hard for any of the other messages or lessons to land.".

 "I hope that I've been able to be that (for my own children), that I'm that warm, safe place. Because - and it's maybe a funny thing to say - but considering what my different jobs are, or what people think they know of you, or what you feel you have to be in the world, in truth none of those things are what you really are. Who you are to your children is everything."