She's a stunning actress, activist and mother with a directorial debut later this year, but Angelina Jolie wasn't always so sure she'd come out on top.
On the off-chance that she didn't make it in Hollywood, however, Jolie had an unusual backup plan: To be a funeral director.
"It sounds like this very strange, eccentric, dark thing to do but in fact I lost my grandfather and was very upset with his funeral," she told Bob Simon in a "60 Minutes" interview. "How somebody passes and how family deals with this passing and what death is should be addressed in a different way.
"If this whole acting thing didn't work out that was going to be my path."
The "In the Land of Blood and Honey" director, 36, spoke about her dalliance with her dark side throughout the interview, explaining that her relationship with Brad Pitt had tamed it somewhat.
"I'm still a bad girl," she said. "I still have that side of me...it's just in its place now...it belongs to Brad. Or...our adventures."
If anything, she explained, she knows that she's lucky to have gotten past her dark phase.
"I went through heavy, darker times and I survived them," she said. "I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things."
She credits her kids - Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne - as a major source of normalcy in her otherwise chaotic life, and her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, as an inspiration.
"My mother was a full-time mother," she said, tearing up. "She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences...everything was for her children.
"I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me."
