Angelu De Leon

Maria Luisa "Angelu" De Leon-Rivera (born August 22, 1979) is a Filipino actress and politician. Angelu de Leon is the youngest daughter of Luis and Flora de Leon. She attended St. Joseph's College, Holy Spirit and Siena College. She made her first commercial, without her father's knowledge, when she was just ten years old. Her father eventually gave his blessing to her acting career before his death from colon cancer.

Quotes

• “FORGIVENESS IS GRACE GRANTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE SPIRIT-FILLED KNOW WHAT IT IS TO FORGIVE FASTER THAN OTHERS CAN APOLOGIZE.”
  • https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2024/02/02/2330431/angelu-de-leon-shares-forgiveness-quotes-after-claudine-barretto-remark

• "DO THE NEW YOU."
  • [[1]]

• "Let us not become weary in doing good."
  • [[2]]

• "Parang feeling ko, there’s always a silver lining, may rainbow at the end of the storm."
  • https://www.pep.ph/lifestyle/31659/angelu-de-leon-talks-about-soul-searching-where-wala-ka-namang-ma-search-and-her-lifes-transition-fr

• “It’s not about the religion, I always make it a hashtag [in my posts]."
  • [[3]]

• “Because it’s really a newfound faith na parang when I found Jesus in the center of my life, He’s a friend."
  • [[4]]

• “He’s a friend like us talking, I can pray to him like this and He wouldn’t mind."
  • [[5]]

• 'Everything I have now, it’s not because I’m a good actress, it’s not because I have these connections or whatever."
  • [[6]]

• “It is only because of the grace of God because siya lang talaga nagbigay sa ‘kin nito, e.”
  • [[7]]

• "I just leap my faith up because that’s the only thing I can do.”
  • [[8]]

• “Siguro yung may hope, even though things are not going well, even if things are not going right or the way you want it, there’s always hope."
  • [[9]]

• "If young people don’t learn from what I did, they might commit the same ‘indiscretion’ and they might not be able to handle the consequences the way that I do."
  • https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2001/10/31/138526/angelu-love-not-lust

• "If they give na kusang-loob, okey lang; if not, okey na rin. I don’t force them."
  • [[10]]

• " A 5 percent possibility" of committing the same "indiscretion" for the third time while at the same time conceding that, being too much of an individual, "I don’t see myself getting married maybe in the next 10 years; I can’t see myself as a wife, I can see myself only as a mother."
  • [[11]]

• "Actually, I am easy to love, easy to deal with, but at the same time not so easy to live with because, as I’ve said, I’m too much of an individual and somewhat hard to control."
  • [[12]]

• ..Pero ever since I’ve been inclined to do public service.
  • https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/celebrities/2025/8/23/angelu-de-leon-shares-why-she-decided-to-join-politics-i-ve-been-inclined-to-do-public-service-1205

• Laging sinasabi sa akin ng mommy ko yung golden rule–– kung ano ginawa mo sa tao yun din ang gagawin sa'yo. Yun yung tinuntungan ko. Yung time na yun, yun yung driving force ko.
  • [[13]]

• “I’m very fortunate that I have the backing of my family. I think yun yung unang-unang step–– even if I wanted it, kung wala yung suporta nung family ko, I wouldn’t have gone through it.”
  • [[14]]