Angelina Jolie would choose her family over fame in an instant. The actress, 49, said motherhood is "everything" to her during an interview with The Sunday Times, published on December 1. While discussing her starring role in Pablo Larraín's Maria Callas biopic,

The actress called herself a "deeply feeling person" in a new interview.

Finding the breath of Maria Callas was enough to bring things out of Jolie that she didn’t even know were in her.

Jolie shares six children — Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16 — with Brad Pitt, whom she split from in 2016. Amid allegations of abuse, at least two of the couple’s kids, Vivienne and Shiloh, have dropped Pitt’s surname.

Angelina Jolie is opening up about how pivotal a role motherhood plays in her life. In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, published on Sunday, Dec. 1, the actress said that being a parent helps to keep feelings of loneliness at bay.