Jolie's inventory of tattoos has become the subject of much media attention and has
often been addressed by interviewers. Jolie stated that, while she is not opposed
to film nudity, the large number of tattoos on her body has forced filmmakers to
become more creative when planning nude or love scenes. Make-up has been used to
cover up the tattoos in many of her productions. Jolie currently has 13 known tattoos,
among them the Tennessee Williams quote "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in
cages", which she got together with her mother, the Arabic language phrase "العزيمة"
(strength of will), the Latin proverb "quod me nutrit me destruit" (what nourishes
me destroys me), and a Yantra prayer written in the ancient Khmer script for her
son Maddox. She also has six sets of geographical coordinates on her upper left arm
indicating the birthplaces of her children. Over time she covered or lasered several
of her tattoos, including "Billy Bob", the name of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton,
a Chinese character for death (死), and a window on her lower back; she explained
that she removed the window, because, while she used to spend all of her time looking
out through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time.