During an interview with 60 minutes Bob Simon, Angelina Jolie talks about her mother Marcheline Bertrand.
"My mom, her name was Marcheline, but everyone called her marshmallow, because she was just the softest, most gentle woman in the world. She was really, really sweet, and she would never get angry. She couldn't swear to save her life. But when it came to her kids, she was just really, really fierce".
"She was an extraordinary mother. She was so selfless, and she was just one of those very, very kind people that love to do everything for others. And I could just never be as good a mother or person as she was. She was a great listener, and a great friend. She was my best friend. I could talk to her about everything. She made me feel like I had a voice, and no matter what would happen, I knew she'd love me."
"My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences. Everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. I will try my best, but I don't think I could ever be. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving... She's better than me".
Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie are blood related. Both of them are 9th cousins, twice removed through a common relative they share who happens to be Jean Cusson of St. Sulpice, Quebec.
During an appearance on Ellen Degeneres, Hilary Clinton nodded when Ellen tells that both Hilary and Angelina are cousins.
Then Hilary complimented Angelina, saying, "I really admire what she's doing on behalf of, you know, charity and HIV/AIDS and a lot of work around the world".
The new movie Mr and Mrs Smith actress Maya Erskine thinks Angelina Jolie is a total goddess.
Angelina Jolie acted the original Mr & Mrs Smith which was shown in 2005.
Maya felt self conscious about her appearance, partly because she just gave birth last year and she said, “I’d given birth the year before, I hadn’t exercised and I wasn’t really taking care of my body".
"You look at Angelina Jolie in the film and she’s a total goddess, and I was thinking: ‘Well, I can’t be her.’ I knew I was never going to push myself to get Marvel ripped and turn myself into this fucking babe.”
“These were not helpful thoughts, so I really had to accept that I was going to be a real woman, I’m not going to be perfect and that’s OK. I decided it would still be sexy, but in a different way.”
Angelina Jolie is deeply influenced by music that she has to be careful of what she listens to.
She explained, "But if I hear a piece of music I will actually be moved towards it. If it's very deeply sad I might become more melancholy. If it has a great energy and rhythm and drums behind it, I might feel that extra bit of fight and fire in the day. So I have to be very careful what I put on because I know this about myself."
Classical musics makes her calm. Jolie tells why, "I need classical music because I move too fast. There's too much going on all at once and I think that much in my head is quite loud."
"It's the complexity of it that I think can keep your mind engaged and helps like a meditation to focus you and spark your mind. Because it has that complexity that makes you think in a different way".
"So I use it. But I use it like medicine when I need to be prescribed a certain tone or a certain influence."