"Now, that's a woman with experience. She's no wuss. She's someone walking her walk and talking her talk. You get there because you take a life of experience and apply it."

"Angelina is living proof of the power we all have -- every one of us -- to make a difference. I was deeply moved by her descriptions of individual refugees struggling to live with dignity and hope, and found her personal commitment to be an inspiration."

"I have nothing but admiration for Angelina Jolie on all sorts of counts. I love her work, and I love what she’s doing with her life. I love when she was asked when she was going to get married and she said, ‘I’ll get married when everyone can marry.' I thought that was particularly eloquent. By all counts, she’s just a wonderful woman."

"Who are our female film legends these days? Rare are the sultry, dangerous, and highly individualistic Hollywood goddesses who were so prevalent in the 1930s and 1940s. Of these few exceptions, one thinks right away of Ms. Angelina Jolie. Ever since about 2004 — when she started crafting a new and revolutionary persona out of her prior story line as an eccentric ingenue, a story line that had been erratic and filled with missteps — she has resonated in a way no other modern female star has managed.

"It's too late for me to have a big family - I can't imagine it now. But I do think that what people like Angelina Jolie do is amazing."

"One of the things I'm most happy about for my kids, is that they have a mother who, I think, is amazing."

"She's absolutely serious, absolutely informed. Her work with refugees is not something to decorate herself. She studies the issues. For her, it's not about saving the world, it's about saving kids. She doesn't need this. This needed her."

"Angelina’s wonderful. To me, she's like a throwback to the women in film of the Forties. Not to say women today aren't great, but back then there was more individuality. They didn't have the same Botox look. Angelina has that great individuality, her own look and her own style. I think she would have been just as big a name in that era, the same as Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis and Ingrid Bergman."

"Her point is to stay, help the Iraqis, especially those who are out of the country, want to come back home, the time is right now, and that the surge is working. Now, if you read the piece by Angelina Jolie today in the Washington Post, you will conclude that she is deeper and in ways more specific than Obama about this if you read the whole article. She makes more sense than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or anybody on the Democrat side about this. It’s stunning."

"She's the best sounding board I have and I value her opinion immensely. It pisses me off sometimes, but it's good."