Angelina Jolie Talks About Avoiding an 'Empty Life'

Angelina Jolie is opening up about balancing her work life and her personal life, plus how she avoids living an empty life.

“You have your creative, and you have your work, and every day of your life is going to be about somehow growing as a person,” the 42-year-old Oscar winner told Deadline. “Somehow feeling you can contribute to the extent that you can get tribute.”

“We’re all trying to find balance, as people,” she added. “I think to be a balanced person, you have to find those things that you just purely enjoy. But, of course, if you aren’t participating in the bigger picture of life, and in being somehow useful, and you aren’t doing something and growing, then really, you’ll find you’re not very happy. Really, you’ll have quite an empty life.”

Angelina also makes sure to put in time to her humanitarian work, something that her six kids have been involved in as well.