If Angelina Jolie finally marries Brad Pitt, he can thank that smelly green ogre Shrek. "Usually people fall in love and everything revolves around the ritual of marriage. Children are an afterthought," says Jolie. "We did everything backwards. But sooner or later, it will be the kids who ask us. They see films and start asking questions. Such as, 'Why are Shrek and Fiona married and you're not?' "

The "Changeling" actress also told the Italian edition of Vanity Fair that she may quit acting.

"The kids are my priority, so it's possible that from now on, I will make fewer movies. I may even stop altogether. I no longer have the ambition I had in my 20s."

The 33-year-old mom of six added: "My life is a lot more chaotic and adventurous now. Brad and I pilot airplanes, we travel nonstop, we go to difficult places, and we have chosen to do it taking all of the kids with us. I feel a lot braver now than when I was an angry young woman."

Gone are the days when Jolie scarred herself with knives and considered suicide. "I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something.

"I could never figure out what it was. I couldn't sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else, and I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it's because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And I always saw myself - wherever I was in life - staring out the window.

"I knew little about the world, and I was completely self-absorbed. It was only when I came out of my shell and started taking care of others that I found the real Angelina.

"Sure, I am still restless, but do you know that my kids are the same way? We were in France these last few months and after a while they started asking when we could get back on a plane."

The family is currently in Germany, where Pitt is filming Quentin Tarantino's World War II drama "Inglorious Bastards."

(Agencies/China Daily October 29, 2008)