Angelina Jolie says time with kids goes so fast

The 'Tourist' actress -- who raises Maddox, nine, Pax, seven, Zahara, five, Shiloh, four and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne with her partner Brad Pitt -- says mothers should cherish every minute they can spend with their kids because it goes by so fast.

She said: "Just enjoy every minute of it because it goes so fast and it is the best time in your life. And strap them to you and hang out with them and sleep in the same bed with them and just love every second of it."

The 35-year-old actress also revealed she took on her role in 'The Tourist' opposite Johnny Depp because it would give her time to spend with her children in Venice and admitted she relies on her kids to keep her grounded in Hollywood.

Speaking on 'The Kyle and Jackie O Show' on Australia's 2Day FM, she said: "You just have to focus on the positive side. I got to spend two months in Venice filming which no one gets to do, with a co-star who's so lovely, so it's all hard to say no to.

"We make a point to stay together as a family when we're filming, in this town you've got to. We take turns working so everybody packed up and went to Venice.

"I think some people are affected by fame, I'm lucky that I have a lot of kids who keep me very, very grounded."

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Which Lip Gloss Did Angelina Jolie Use at the Golden Globes?

Intrepid TV viewers watching Sunday's Golden Globe Awards caught Angelina Jolie re-applying her own lip gloss as she watched the show with love Brad Pitt, The Tourist costar Johnny Depp and other A-listers.

So what did Jolie, 35, use on her world-famous pout? Jolie's makeup artist Toni G. tells UsMagazine.com that she makes her lips pop with Chantecaille Brilliant Gloss in Love -- a brand she's frequently used on-set and on countless red carpets.

Toni G. -- who worked with Jolie during Globes night and as she shot The Tourist -- tells Us that the "Love" gloss "maintains lip moisture and is fresh and sexy. Just re apply and go!"

Although Jolie went home empty-handed (The Kids Are Alright's Annette Bening won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy), she earned raves for her dramatic sequined Versace gown.

Among her biggest fans? Dad Jon Voight. "Angelina looks stunning," the actor told Us at the HBO afterparty held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel's Circa 55. "She rarely wears color but tonight, tonight is her best ever in my opinion!"

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Visit St. John's Children’s Hospital in Springfield, Missouri

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie paid a visit to St. John's Children's Hospital in Springfield, Missouri on Dec. 30. Pitt and Jolie had just returned from a Christmas vacation in Namibia and stopped by to spend some time with Brad’s family in his hometown.

Last year Pitt and Jolie donated $1 million to St. John's Foundation for Community Health. The pediatric cancer center of the hospital was named after Brad’s mother, Jane. It is now called the St. John’s Jane Pitt Pediatric Cancer Center. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s tour of the facility was joined by Pitt’s parents, Bill and Jane, and his brother, Doug.

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Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Donate $2 Million to Namibian Wildlife Sanctuary

American actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are donating $2 million to a wildlife sanctuary in Namibia, where they spent Christmas with their children.

The donation to the Naankuse Lodge and Wildlife Sanctuary was made through the couple's Jolie-Pitt foundation in the name of their daughter, Shiloh, who was born in Namibia.

In a statement, Jolie said the couple wants their daughter to be "very involved" and to grow up with an understanding of the country of her birth.

Jolie said the owners of the sanctuary are old friends, who have impressed her with their "hard work and dedication" to the conservation of Namibia's land and wildlife.

Jolie and Pitt spent the Christmas holiday with their six children at the lodge, which looks after injured animals, including baboons and leopards.

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Brad Pitt's new movie 'Cogan's Trade' to Start Filming in New Orleans in March

Brad Pitt is going to head to New Orleans for the filming of "Cogan's Trade" in March 2011. He is reportedly attached to portray the title character in the film, based on George V. Higgins novel about Jackie Cogan. According to Scene Magazine, the movie is expected to shoot entirely in the New Orleans area.

This project will reunite Pitt with "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" director Andrew Dominick and co-stars Casey Affleck as well as Sam Rockwell. Other possible cast members are Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Javier Bardem, Bill Murray and Zoe Saldana, the site reports.

"Cogan's Trade" will additionally become the first film Pitt shoots in Louisiana since 2008 "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". The actor and his living partner Angelina Jolie share a residence in the city.

"Cogan's Trade" is a crime thriller that revolves around Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that takes place during a high stakes poker game under protection of the mob. Andrew Dominick will write in addition to directing the movie.

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Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt & Family Spend Christmas in Namibia

Just two days before Christmas (December 23), Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie emerged in Windhoek, Namibia -- at a shopping mall!

Pitt, 47, and Jolie, 35, were snapped with a shopping cart full of toys -- presumably for their six kids, including second-youngest daughter Shiloh, who was born in Namibia in 2006.

Despite their last-minute mall trip, Jolie told Ryan Seacrest last week that she was mostly done with her holiday shopping for the brood.

"I've got it all boxed and ready to go," the Tourist actress said. "I went through it today. I'm trying to get every stocking right and all the wrapping paper."

And the star promised their holiday would be somewhere far-flung: "We're going to travel with the kids and go to a random part of the world," Jolie teased. "We're going to travel and have an adventure, because that's what we love to do."

A few months editing her directorial debut, which she shot in Hungary last month -- and promotional duties for animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 2, out in the spring.

"I'm a little schizophrenic," she joked to Seacrest her wide-ranging film choices, "but somehow it works out."

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Shiloh wears soldier costume as Angelina takes Shiloh, Zahara and Maddox for Christmas shopping in NYC (photos)

The four-year-old couldn't wipe the smile off her face as she happily ran ahead of her mother on a shopping trip in New York yesterday showing off her big gap-toothed grin.


Angelina Jolie had treated Shiloh, sister Zahara and brothers Pax and Maddox to a spot of shopping ahead of the Christmas rush.


Shiloh showed off her seasonal style in a bright red military style coat with gold applets making her look just like a toy soldier as she visited Lee's Art Store.


Her smiling sister Zahara, five, was dressed in an almost identical outfit to her stylish mother in a black wool coat and tall black boots.


The three ladies were accompanied by Pax, seven, who was wrapped up for the cold weather in a furry jacket and matching fur hat with ear flaps and his brother Maddox, eight, who looked cool in a camouflage puffer vest.


Angelina Jolie takes her children Pax, Shiloh, and Sahara shopping to Lee's art store in New York city, USA.




Just last night Angelina celebrated the release of her new film The Tourist at its World premier held at the Ziegfield Theater.


At the event Angelina, 35, discussed spending the holidays in the city she grew up in.


'I love New York at Christmastime,' she told Entertainment Tonight.


'I used to come here all the time when I was a little girl, with my mum, so I have happy memories of Rockefeller Centre and the park,' said the mother of six.


She admitted she is excited 'to be able to take the babies on a carriage ride'.


Angelina added: 'I think just kind of walking around really was my favourite thing to do. Now it's a little harder.'

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Angelina Jolie: Date Night with Brad Pitt Is Good for the Kids, Too ‘Staying strong as a couple keeps the children in a better place’

For Angelina Jolie, date night with companion Brad Pitt isn't so much an escape from the kids as another way to nurture them.

"You have to make time when you are not Mom and Dad once in a while," the actress, 35, tells Britain's Daily Mail's You magazine.

"The most important thing is that you love your children, but you also have to stay focused on each other so that you stay strong. And you staying strong as a couple keeps the kids in an even better place."

The Oscar winner says she's trying to instill the same confidence in her six kids – Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne – as her own mother, the late French actress Marcheline Bertrand, gave her.

"My mother made me feel very loved and sent me out into my life to be whatever I needed to be and to express whatever I needed to be," Jolie says.

"Hopefully I'm giving my children the sense that they are deeply loved and deeply safe. At the same time we are hopefully encouraging their individuality as they get to know who they are, and not getting in the way of that. That's why they are six very strong individuals."

Asked about Shiloh's well-known tomboy ways, Jolie shrugs. "I don't think it's for the world to interpret anything," she says. "She likes to dress like a boy and wants her hair cut like a boy and she wanted to be called 'John' for a while. Some kids wear capes and want to be Superman, and she wants to be like her brothers. It's who she is."

Jolie also talks about whether she'd ever get plastic surgery – "I don't think I will. But if it makes somebody happy, then that's up to them," she says – as well as her connection to Johnny Depp, whom she got to know while filming The Tourist.

"Neither of us attends many parties or goes out very much. Neither of us seems to take ourselves too seriously," Jolie says. "Your life is full off-set, and you have this nice balance. Johnny is like that, and I'm like that, too."


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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took twins Vivienne and Knox to Lee's Art Shop in New York (photos)

Onlookers couldn't help but do a double take as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt stepped out in New York today.

The power couple were treating their twins Knox and Vivienne to an outing at Lee's Art Shop in Manhattan and emerged from the store with the adorable pair in tow.

The two-year-olds were dressed in matching grey coats, with Vivenne wearing a white knit bonnet to shield her from the cold.

Knox looked just like his famous in a black flat cap and chunky boots.

The family are back in the U.S. after a visit to Paris where Angelina, 35, was promoting her new film, The Tourist, and Brad, 46, was hard at work drumming up interest in the animated film, Megamind.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Share a Memorable Meal in Paris

Amid a week of tandem promotional tours through Paris for her The Tourist and his Megamind, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie turned up for dinner Thursday evening at one of the world's best eateries – Restaurant Guy Savoy, on the Rue Troyon – and stayed till nearly midnight to close the place.

The restaurant came highly praised, by none other than Jolie's Changeling director. "They came, they said, because Clint Eastwood recommended the restaurant to her. He told her they'd enjoy themselves," the legendary three-Michelin star chef, Guy Savoy, tells PEOPLE.

"Brad was very interested in the style of cuisine and very knowledgeable," says Savoy, 53. "And I have to say that I took one look at her and I complimented him on his good taste. She is most beautiful in person."

After a champagne toast, the couple's meal began with soft-boiled eggs infused with truffles, followed by an artichoke soup with a glass of white wine.

For main dishes, "she took a lobster dish, and he ordered a cote de veau, with mashed potatoes seasoned with truffles." Their wine accompaniment was a Bordeaux: a Paulliac from Chateau Lynch Bages.

"During a break, Brad visited in the kitchen," says Savoy. There, the actor and the chef, in Savoy's words, "hammered together" a conversation in English and French. Savoy says Pitt's French is "surprisingly good."

For dessert, the chef says, both chose a selection of cheeses. "Typically French," Savoy says with a laugh.

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Bosnia Rape Victims to Complain to UN About Angelina Jolie

Wartime rape victims in Bosnia say they will complain to the U.N. refugee agency about its goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie who has not yet clarified rumors surrounding her movie that have infuriated the women.

Wartime rape victims were outraged when they heard rumors that Jolie's directorial debut was about a victim in a rape camp falling in love with her rapist. Jolie's producer denied the rumors.

Bakira Hasecic, the head of the association Women Victims of War, says she will send a letter to the UNHCR, according to an interview published in daily newspaper Dnevni Avaz on Monday.

Jolie had promised a meeting with the women in November and invited them to shooting in Budapest but Hasecic said Jolie should come to Bosnia and meet the women there.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitts Celebrate Pax's 7th Birthday with a cruise and hot-air balloon ride in Paris

Pax Jolie-Pitt got to see plenty of Paris on Sunday, from the air and the water, while celebrating his 7th birthday a day early with his family.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt made a full day of it with their kids – minus the 2-year-old twins – starting with a hot-air balloon ride and finishing with a party cruise on a riverboat.

They turned up unannounced in the morning at the riverside Parc André Citroen in the Left Bank for a ride in a tethered hot-air balloon. "They were like any other family," the balloon's operator tells PEOPLE. "There was nothing out of the ordinary to tell you about them which made them any different from any other family."

He adds that they were "charming" and the kids were "excited but well-behaved. What I think they wanted was a little moment of peace."

Thanks to the hour, the time of year and the cold weather, they found just that – enjoying the 20-minute ride by themselves.

As if that weren't enough, the group took the festivities to the water in the early evening, renting the luxurious Josephine riverboat out of Port Debilly, alongside the Eiffel Tower, for a birthday cruise on the Seine.

"We made a short cruise upriver. They stayed on board for about 90 minutes," a crewmember tells PEOPLE.

"Angelina is a very beautiful woman in person. She was friendly and spoke to me. Brad," the female crew member said with a sigh, "is very, very nice and very outgoing. He played a lot with the kids."

There was an assortment of cakes and sweets, and the boat was decorated with blue and yellow balloons.

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