Pitt Puts the Pedal to the Metal

Angelina Jolie, 32, inspires millions through her charity work, but her role model isn’t a famous philanthropist – it’s her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who lost a seven-year battle with ovarian cancer in January at age 56.

“This was somebody who the world didn’t know about at all, but her simple acts of kindness left a huge impression,” Jolie says in the new issue of Parade magazine.

“I am my mother’s daughter. I mean, I hope but I don’t think I’ll ever be as good as her.”

But that won’t stop Jolie from trying. In fact, the mother of four is so dedicated to her children — sons Maddox, 5, and Pax, 3, and daughters Zahara, 2, and one-year-old Shiloh — that she’s considering retiring in a few years to be a full-time parent. And she may be taking boyfriend Brad Pitt, 43, with her!

See interview highlights below for the actress’ thoughts on living in the public eye, being an American, and what made her turn to charity work.

On juggling kids and work:
“Brad and I are very lucky that we’re in a situation where we can choose to take turns, and one of us can be home with the kids, and so we kind of have that plan of who is doing what. So I have been home, and now I am going to go to work for a little bit, then he is going to work, then I am going to work, then basically we’re going to try to take a year off and just be with the kids. So certainly, we’re trying to find a few projects that we love or that we think would be good to do for one reason or another. But mainly our focus is, ‘OK, let’s look at our schedule, and try to figure out when we’re going to have our family time.’”

On having more kids:
“Brad and I have a lot of kids, and we want to have more kids. And they demand a lot of time. It takes a lot just to get all of them fed and clothed and out the door to different schools on time. It’s fun, and we love it. But you can’t balance everything. I think both of us only plan to work for a few more years. We’ll try to just stop sooner or later, so we can be home and travel, and just live.”

On her family’s public image:
“Whether people’s thoughts about my family are positive or negative, at the end of the day, I get to come home to these four little people who are the greatest things in the world.”

On her life before charity work:
“I think that when I was in my early 20s, I knew, innately, that I wasn’t living an important life. I think that I hadn’t so much lost my way, but I hadn’t found my way. I wasn’t giving very much. My life was not really benefiting anyone. That just doesn’t feel good.”

On what it means to be American:
“I think these days there’s been this wrong opinion that to be conscious and thoughtful of the rest of the world is not to be supportive of America. I think it is the core of what it is to be American. It’s why I’m proud to be American.”

On deciding to give back:
“To be sitting doing an interview, talking about a movie, my relationships, whatever it may have been – you don’t feel like you’re contributing anything. I have nothing against film. I like film. But at the end of the day, you wonder about your worth as a person.”

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Is they a problem with JJ. I keep getting WordPress. Anyway here is the parade article so we won’t give usweakly any hits.

The first pics

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls====277497&nbc1=1

This guy’s at Us Weekly can’t read?

Ehere in her intreview with PARADE interview( http://www.parade.com/celebrity/articles/070530-Angelina-Jolie.html) does she say?s tha “she’s considering retiring in a few years”? she say’s that she tha “then basically we’re going to try to take a year off and just be with the kids”. A year, not retiring.

ha! Brad looks like he’s acting goofy. He looks so happy and content.

#753 Thanks for the link Meli!

The first pics

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls====277497&nbc1=1

Man, what is going on with JJ?

the site is so slow today, wordpress keeps poping up, Help jared

Jolie: `We have family sleep on Sundays’ from

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070605/ap_en_ot/people_angelina_jolie;_ylt=Ak.eQrOFmtAdvYga9OQjq4JxFb8C

758 says,he has everything he ever wanted,a loving family,no wonder the amn is always lively and smiling.angie and the kids made his life fullfilled.as i said before, us liesly are shameless fools

Jolie: `We Have Family Sleep on Sundays’
By Associated Press
33 minutes ago

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive for the screening …
NEW YORK - Angelina Jolie, who won an Oscar for 1999’s “Girl, Interrupted,” says she wants to be remembered for her humanitarian work.

“I have no animosity toward Hollywood or the demands of the red carpet, all that silliness,” Jolie, 32, tells Esquire magazine in its upcoming July issue. “That’s my job, and I’m happy to have it. But when I die, do I want to be remembered as an actress? No.”

“I recently had an op-ed (column) published in a newspaper,” she continues. “And at the end, it didn’t say I was an actress. It said that I was a UN goodwill ambassador _ that’s all. And I was really proud.”

Jolie, an activist for issues ranging from global poverty to wildlife conservation, says she has found meaning as a citizen of the world.

“I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life,” says Jolie. “I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn’t know why. I felt like I didn’t have anything to share. It was a very empty time.”

Today, her life is far from empty. Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt, 43, have four children: 5-year-old Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia; 3-year-old Pax Thien, who was adopted from Vietnam; 2-year-old Zahara, who was adopted from Ethiopia; and daughter, Shiloh, who was born to the couple a year ago.

“I try to make sure that each of my children has enough of my attention to feel equal. I try to make sure that my relationship with the man in my life is solid and complete and we’re very connected and having a great life together and enjoying our children and being part of the world. So that’s my life,” she says.

“We don’t go to parties. We hardly ever leave the house. We try to schedule time when we’re alone,” says Jolie, who sports various tattoos, wore a vial of Billy Bob Thornton’s blood around her neck during their marriage, and was blamed for Pitt’s divorce from Jennifer Aniston _ which Pitt has denied.

“Right now, Pax is sleeping in our bed. It’s kind of nice, him immediately knowing and feeling comfortable with us,” she says. “Madd slept with me until Brad and I got together. They’re fun to sleep with. We have family sleep on Sundays. Everybody sleeps together.”

“Some people have their lives together and then they have their children,” says Jolie, who stars in Viacom Inc.’s upcoming Paramount Vantage film “A Mighty Heart.” “Brad and I are starting with the children and are planning to have our time together in our later years.”

It’s very clear she wants more kids, the question is when. She says they are hard work, maybe in a few years they will have more kids. Right now? probably not.

“Brad and I are starting with the children and are planning to have our time together in our later years.”
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Thank you! Finally in her own words. Right now they are together only for the kids.

771 ROTFL | 06/05/2007 at 3:50 pm
From People:

As for her own relationship with Pitt, Jolie says that their connection has grown over time – despite many changes in their family life.

“I think we both went on a lot of faith – we really did,” she says. “Our family has grown very quickly, and we have a lot of responsibility together, and we acknowledge that we are lucky we turned out be for each other everything we’d hoped. We could have been very wrong, but every challenge we hit has brought us closer. It has been that kind of relationship.”

These quotes are killing me…
Lovely!!!