Jolie's exotic mixture of brains and glamour makes her the one reliable international star, and one of the few of either gender to make people in every country pay to see her.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't get star-stuck. I love Angelina Jolie, though.
Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.
Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you, not me, not the girl next door - who wouldn't like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night.
From her first superheroine role in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' - which earned $275 million globally in 2001, back when that was real money - Jolie has been the one actress who can stand up to any male star and stare him down.
All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'
Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.
An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.