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At 36 years old, with six children and longtime partner Brad Pitt by her side, Angelina Jolie is finding her desire to step in front of the camera dwindling*.

"Acting is like being in therapy*, in a way," Jolie explained of why she "needed acting more" in her younger years, during an interview with the Financial Times posted on Friday.

"You ask these questions as you grow up: am I strong enough, am I sane* enough? Do I understand love, do I understand myself?

"I'm older now and I know who I am," she continued. "I'm less interested in the character helping me answer something ... than in being able to answer it for myself, as a woman, as an adult, with my family."

Although the Academy Award-winning actress admits she no longer loves acting "as much as she did," she couldn't resist the role of CIA agent Evelyn Salt -- a character originally written to be played by a man for 2010's action thriller*, "Salt" -- when she read the script in 2008 while breastfeeding her and Pitt's newborn twins, Knox and Vivienne, in the hospital.

The star recently took her first turn behind the camera for her upcoming directorial debut*, "In the Land of Blood and Honey" -- due out in theaters on December 23 -- and revealed she and Pitt, who both devote much of their free time to charitable causes, plan to lessen their movie commitments in the future.

"As Brad and I get older we're going to do fewer films. I've been working for a long time, he's been working for a long time," she said. "We've had a nice run and don't want to be doing this our whole lives. There are a lot of other things to do."

As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Pitt recently revealed the couple's children are forcing the power pair to re-examine their marriage.

"The kids ask about marriage," Pitt told USA Today's Weekend Edition in May. "It's meaning more and more to them. So, it's something we've got to look at."

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