Access HollywoodLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- There are a lot of things important to Angelina Jolie - and frankly, acting just doesn't top the list.
In a new interview with ABC's "Nightline," Angelina said she has her priorities in order and it's clearly family first.
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"I'd say kids first.... kids, woman to Brad and then my work internationally and being a kind of... trying to educate myself and trying to learn about the world and... trying to do some good things while I'm alive," the actress said.
"Then, so what is that, fourth?" she laughed of where acting ranks on the list.
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And while her work in her most recent film, "Changeling," earned the actress an Oscar nomination, Angelina admitted she rarely watches her own films - and in fact, there are some she has never seen.
"No, I just, I don't really like to watch movies," Angelina revealed. "[But] I love to watch Brad's movies."
And while she said "it's lovely to be nominated" for an Academy Award this year for her role as Christine Collins, come Oscar night, her focus will be on another category - Best Actor.
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"I'm rooting for Brad," she said of her mate's nomination for his lead role in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
But when it comes to her role in "Changeling," Angelina said she almost didn't take the part.
"I said I wanted to stay away from it because I couldn't sleep the night I read it, just the thought of anything happening to my kids is something I didn't want to think about," she said.
Once she did sign on to star in the Clint Eastwood -directed film, Angelina pulled her inspiration for the character from her late mother - actress Marcheline Bertrand.
"She was just kind to everybody and never wanted to fight. And, yet, when it came to protecting her children or doing anything in defense of her children, she was very, very strong," Angelina explained. "And that's Christine to me."
In her portrayal of the character -- a single mother who confronted the police after they returned the wrong child to her when her son went missing - Angelina said she sees similarities in herself, noting she wouldn't have let herself be bullied by the police.
But also one big difference Angelina sees from Christine.
"Yeah, I'd probably take him home," she joked of the boy they tried to tell Christine was her son. "I'd adopt him."
