Angelina Jolie wants to be great mom just like her mom was. She has changed her ways since her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, died in January from cancer.

In an interview on the "Today" show Jolie, 31, talks about how her mother and her mother's death has impacted her life. She states, "You know, I want to be a great mom like my mom was and I want to also do the things that I love."

She goes on to say, "So I'm at a strange, I suppose, place in my life. I think that that happens when you lose a parent, where you drop and do a different kind of serious, and yet, at the same time, you want to enjoy and laugh as much as possible every day." Jolie added: "But I'm holding on to my family really tight at this moment because of that and trying to be to be as good a woman as I can be in my life."

According to Yahoo Entertainment News, Jolie is the star of the new movie "A Mighty Heart". She plays Mariane Pearl, the wife of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by Islamic extremists while reporting for the Wall Street Journal in Pakistan in 2002.

Angelina says that her losing her mother was heartbreaking but can't be compared to what Mariane went through. "It's a natural thing for a child to lose a parent," she said. "I lost my mom too young, but it happened. And I'm happy she's out of pain, `cause I love her and she's my friend. Mariane lost her husband in a way that is not natural and is unfair. … It's something to remember."