Sigourney Weaver quotes - page 3

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them! (Sigourney Weaver)

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

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It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

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It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

Sigourney Weaver

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

Sigourney Weaver

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

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Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

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I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

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I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.

Sigourney Weaver

I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.

Sigourney Weaver

I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is. (Sigourney Weaver)

I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.

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I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.

Sigourney Weaver

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

Sigourney Weaver

With the `60s and the `70s, television gave people a real appetite for violence and slickness. And, for a long time, there was a reluctance to put women in that world. Now, we`ve sort of forced our way in-and I don`t think we`re going to leave.

Sigourney Weaver

I prefer not to have any image, or any one image," she says, now curled on a couch in a suite at the hotel and sheathed in black, one shoulder bared. "It's because I come from the theater originally. My dream, when I was a young actor, was to be in a repertory company, where you could play the maid in one piece and then play the leading lady in another, and go from comedy to drama and really hop all over the place. And I actually realized a long time ago that you can't expect anything to happen; you can't expect anyone else to know what you want, where you want to go next. So I guess what I'm always doing is trying to create this mini-rep company in my head.

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Occupation: American Actress
Born: October 8, 1949
Quotes count: 66
Wikipedia: Sigourney Weaver

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