(In the above pic Angelina and Jon were snapped during happier times)

Angelina Jolie’s father Jon Voight thinks it’s “wonderful” the mom of six wants more kids.

“I think that comes from my dad. My dad was a great storyteller and just had this way with kids,” Jon told Us magazine at Wednesday’s 24: Redemption premiere in NYC.

Angelina is “part of a legacy of my dad … [they both have] this idea about family,” Jon shared. “She always had this very unusual idea — and her brother’s like that, too. Her brother has this great love for protecting children.”

Now that she has the twins, Angelina “is very happy,” said Jon, with whom Angelina has said she is slowly reconciling after years of estrangement. “I saw her before the twins came, and I’ve never seen her that happy.”

Even though he has yet to see Knox and Viv, Jon said he’s already thinking of what to buy his grandchildren.

“Isn’t that a happy thing?” he said. “That’s the happiest thing to think about what kids would like, right?”

Jon said he’s “hoping” to see the kids around the holidays. “We’ll see.”

Jon also shared that he sympathizes with his daughter and Brad trying to protect their kids amid a daily barrage of paparazzi.

“They are handling it, but it’s a stress on them because they can’t do things, they can’t easily go out and do stuff. They always have to consider the barrage of some kind happening. It’s difficult. They’re just kids after all, they’re just young people.”

Awww…hopefully he’ll get to see his grandchildren for the holidays!

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Brad Pitt says that life requires careful planning with six young children.

Brad told Oprah, in an interview on her show that will air on November 19th, that quick outings are things of the past. 

“We don’t go to the mall,” shared Brad, 44, adding that preparing for a car trip is an adventure unto itself. 

“It’s like a half-an-hour just to get everyone buckled in and make sure they’ve got their snacks, and Z.Z. [Zahara, 3] has got a blanket and Shiloh’s got her silky,” he said. 

“Angie’s militant about it. She’s right on top of it. Thank God, because I’m always forgetting something.” 

He also revealed 2½-year-old daughter Shiloh’s latest quirk.

“She only wants to be called John. John or Peter. So it’s a Peter Pan thing,” he said. “So we’ve got to call her John. ‘Shi, do you want …’ – ‘John. I’m John.’ And then I’ll say, ‘John, would you like some orange juice?’ And she goes, ‘No!’ So, you know, it’s just that kind of stuff that’s cute to parents, and it’s probably really obnoxious to other people.” 

:) That’s cute!

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Angelina has admitted that she struggled with breast feeding her twins at the same time! 

“It’s very hard,” Angelina confessed on Britain’s morning show GMTV. “I stopped at three months, [it was] about as much as I could do.” 

Angelina, 33, who was in London promoting her film The Changeling with Brad Pitt and their four-month-old twins, Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline, said she even resorted to manuals on the subject. 

“There’s this football hold – it’s a lot harder than it looks in the books,” she said in the prerecorded interview at her London hotel on Monday. “I did that a few times. I would take turns. It just takes a long time.” 

The mom of six also revealed that it was while filming The Changeling that she became pregnant with the twins: “We decided to start trying in the beginning, and by the end I was.”

On whether marriage is important, Angelina says emphatically “it’s not” – explaining, “we jumped into being a family first. And that just seems like the biggest commitment you can possibly make. It doesn’t feel like anything’s lacking.” 

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(In the above pic, Angelina was snapped leaving their hotel and heading to the private screening for the film ‘Changeling’ at the Curzon cinema in Mayfair, London. Though Brad is not pictured, he was with Angelina.) 

At a Changeling press conference Monday in London, Angelina Jolie got teary eyed talking about her late mother Marcheline Bertrand, who died of cancer in 2007.

After being asked what it meant to film a movie about a strong mother so soon after Marcheline Bertrand’s death, Angelina cursed and her eyes filled with tears. 

“She was really sweet and was never angry - she couldn’t swear to save her life,” she said. “But when it came to her kids, she was really fierce and so this is very much her, her story.

“She was the woman I related to, who had that elegance and strength through just knowing what was right,” she continued.

Angelina -  who also confirmed Monday that she will replace Tom Cruise in Edwin A. Salt - also opened up her recent comments that she wants to “fade away” from acting.

“I’m not making some retirement announcement,” she said. “I have a big family and a lot of responsibility at home, and I have the good fortune to financially not have to work all the time.

“I just feel privileged that I get to be home a lot,” she said. “Maybe eventually I’ll stop [acting].”

After a reporter asked, “Can we expect more children soon?” Angelina replied, “Sure, you can!”

She added that she spent the past year “with the kids. Most of it has been spent in my pajamas coloring.”

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Angelina Jolie says she plans to give up acting to be a full-time mother.

“I don’t plan to keep acting very long. I’m ready to do a few things now and fade away and get ready to be a grandma one day,” she told BBC News in a new interview. “I’m not so worried that I want to keep this pace up and try to be something and be a celebrity.”

She says she’s lucky to take on great roles but “everything comes in seasons.

“I hopefully won’t be needing to do that later in my life anyway,” she added.

Angelina, 33, - who says she won’t work for a year after she returns to work in February - stresses, “I don’t think I’ll ever say I’m never, ever gonna work because maybe there’s that interesting project where I feel creative.

“I like being home a lot,” the mother of six added. “First and foremost, I have a lot of children, and I need to make sure they’re growing right and they’ve got us there for them.”

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Angelina’s stamina while traversing the globe with Brad and six children is impressive but she admits that it can take its toll.

After her recent humanitarian trip to Afghanistan followed, just days later, by a high-profile awards show appearance – she was worn out.

“I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies,” a weary Angelina, 33, told the Los Angeles Times recently, hours before she presented an award to Clint Eastwood. “I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.”

Still, she shows no signs of settling down in Hollywood. “I don’t dislike it here,” Angelina shared. “I just really do love to travel. I love other cultures. And I love raising my kids in the world. I’m so fortunate that I get to do that.”

Angelina also opened up about her emotional performance as a mother in The Changeling. She thinks that the role helped her get pregnant with twins Knox and Vivienne.

“I got pregnant right in the middle of [filming] and I think partially because of it,” she explained. “I was so emotional about children that I think something in me kicked into gear.”

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(In the above pic Angelina was snapped with a young fan at the celebration of the DVD release of Kung Fu Panda)

“They’re great. They’re still so little, but they do [have their own personalities],” Angelina shared of her 4-month-old twins at the celebration of the DVD release of Kung Fu Panda.

Knox and Vivienne are “starting to get very smiley,” Angelina shared. “They’re at that [stage] where their personality really starts to shine.”

And Angelina shared that her older children are fans of her work in Kung Fu Panda.

“I think it’s a great film, and it’s brought a lot of joy to children – and to my children, absolutely,” Angelina told People magazine at the event. “My kids love it. They’re very very proud, they’ve got mom [Tigress] dolls.”

“I have a great partner,” Angelina told Access Hollywood of Brad.

“He’s the best daddy and we have fun, so whenever it gets hard we can just look at each other and find a way to laugh about and just appreciate that they’re only little once, and we should enjoy every minute.”

On expanding their family, she said, “Anything could happen. We’re open to anything, we love kids and we’re having a great time… It’s chaos in our house, but it’s so much fun. We’ll definitely have more.”

Angelina, who looked strikingly slim in a black Ralph Lauren mini and nude Stuart Weitzman peep-toes, didn’t let on whether she’d be attending any of President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural balls in January. However, she did say she was happy with the election last Tuesday.

“I was pleased to see how excited so many people were,” she told People magazine.

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Taraji P. Henson, who plays Brad Pitt’s mother in their upcoming film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, says that “Brad and Angie” have the “parenting thing mapped out.”

“There are some parents who are meant to be parents of multiple [children]. They were chosen,” Taraji told People magazine at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ birthday bash and Barack Obama victory party sponsored by Ciroc Vodka on Wednesday night.

“We all know that he is an incredible artist, but he really is a great person and a great father,” Taraji added of the father of six.

The family “spend one-on-one time with each child everyday,” shared Taraji. “[Brad] would bring a different child to the set every day and spend all day with that one child. I never saw a nanny. It was always him, Angelina, or his parents.”

She recounts when Angelina visited the set. “She had Shiloh, and [Brad] grabbed my hand and was like, ‘Taji, Taji, come over here and meet Angie. Come and meet Angie.’” She added, “He was dragging me and I [thought], ‘These are the coolest, most real and most down-to-earth people.’ “

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In an upcoming interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah acknowledges to Brad Pitt that Angelina Jolie is the love of his life.

Then, she asks him if he’s the happiest he’s even been.

“Dare I say,” Brad replies in the interview, set to air on November 18th.

“Dare I see,” says Oprah.

The interview is Brad’s first sit-down with Oprah since his 2005 split with Jennifer Aniston (a friend of Oprah’s).

Oprah asks Brad, who is raising six children with Angelina, if he wants more children.

“Probably. It’s the greatest endeavor I’ve ever taken on,” he says. “Why stop now?”

He calls his kids the “funniest people,” but admits he can only handle being alone with four of them at a time.

He tells Oprah that 2-year-old Shiloh, who is a Peter Pan fanatic, will only respond to the names John and Peter. Four-year-old Pax, he says, rebelled against a timeout session by peeing on the timeout chair.

Oprah later whips out the November issue of W magazine, which featured photos that Brad took of Angelina.

He tells Oprah that he wanted to portray Angelina as a “femme fatale.” He goes on to say she is “very sweet.”

Brad and Oprah bonded this past week at Chicago’s Grant Park after Barack Obama was elected president.

“I would have invited you out with me to the rally last night,” Oprah says. “But I was down with the people, and I didn’t think you would want to be.”

Replies Brad, “I took the tram, shoulder to shoulder.”

The way Pax rebels against time-outs made me laugh!

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Despite being a mother of six, Angelina Jolie says her rebellious past (filled with knives, bisexual romances, and tattoos!) still remains a part of who she is.

“I don’t walk around feeling I need to apologize or explain myself,” Angelina, 33, shared in December’s Harper’s Bazaar. “I am still, at heart – and always will be – just a punk kid with tattoos.”

She also says she’ll only play characters on the big screen that she would ideally want to hang out with.

“I tell stories that are about the type of woman I’d want to meet,” shared Angelina, who plays the mother of a kidnapped son in her latest drama Changeling.

“The type of woman where I think, even if it’s silly characters I’ve played, like in Tomb Raider, there’s something about her that will be fun for my daughters to see one day,” she added.

She said that she and Brad explain the difference between the big screen and real life to their children.

“Listen, my kids play video games. I let them play with toy soldiers. We don’t take war and violence lightly, but we don’t hide it from anybody,” she said. “We say, ‘Mommy and Daddy have movies where we play these characters, but there’s real death and violence in the world.’”

Angelina recently admitted that she bought Maddox, 7, some knives.

“My mom took me to buy my first daggers when I was 11 or 12,” Angelina revealed in November’s W magazine. “And I’ve already bought Maddox some.”

The mention of video games made me wonder about something…do you allow video games in your house? Video games are allowed in our house…I mean, I grew up playing them so I certainly don’t see it as a big deal, but I do worry about the effect they could be having. And just to clarify, we only have games like Mario Kart and such…not Grand Theft Auto! I was concerned by a recent news story about a boy running away from home after his father took away his video console. Microsoft was even offering a cash reward for his safe return home I think. His father was so shocked that his son ran away as he said that he had no idea how important video gaming was to his son. I guess that some children develop secret lives in which they have relationships with other gamers through online gaming and such. That is definitely scary.

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