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Jolie: `We have family sleep on Sundays'

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Updated: 2007-06-06 08:33





Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive for the screening of the film
'Ocean's Thirteen,' at the 60th International film festival in Cannes,
southern France, on May 24, 2007. [AP]



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."









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