The actress/director has five children with her husband Brad Pitt, and takes her work everywhere she goes.
Stating that the family's base in the south of France is "perfectly situated" for wherever she needs to go, Angelina has realised she can't "stay put".
Angelina Jolie / Credit: WireImageSpeaking to France's Marie Claire magazine she explained: "I'm not very good at relaxing. I can't stay put. I read, write, negotiate films, I carry my office around with me.
"[Our home in France] is close to European cities, but also to Africa and the Middle East. To all the theatres of operations where my United Nations work obliges me to go. LA is clearly too far from all that."
Back in 2007, Angelina was left devastated following the death of her mother Marcheline Bertrand, who died of cancer, but still feels her parent's presence when she's around her children.
"I feel in contact with my mother when I look at my children.
"I can feel her influence over me then. I see that my way of raising them resembles the way she raised my brother and I.
"It's more apparent with my daughters Shiloh and Vivienne. Therefore, yes, my mother is there, present in this influence, all the time."
Attributes she admires in other women are those she always appreciated in her mother - "softness and strength".
"She was very soft but could move mountains for her kids.
"That's something I always admire in women: that mix of softness and strength. She was half Indian, and I remember that as a small girl, she took me to a dinner for Amnesty International.
"She always tried to understand the complexity of the world. She had a great heart which was sensitive to the world's violence."
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