Latest Rachel Weisz Quotes from Interviews

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• I love the international feeling In New Yokk. Different foods. Different people. There's everything here. Museums, theatre, there's so much to do I feel guilty about not doing too many things.

  Rachel Weisz

  People, Feelings, Theatre

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Seeing someone you know be good at something is really appealing. Seeing how Darren Aronofsky behaved on set, it was another aspect of him, the director. He'd never directed me at home in the kitchen before. It was just seeing a whole other aspect of someone. It was really, really exciting. I loved it.

  Rachel Weisz

  Home, Kitchen, Exciting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Now we're in a recession, and at war, so people want to see this chihuahua movie, The Fountain. To be told to come to terms with death, that death is the road to all - it's a very intense subject. But as with movies that are very unusual, that have come to be thought of as very interesting, one finds out at the time that they were not understood. So who knows? We'll see. A lot of people really, really loved it, and a lot of people didn't get it.

  Rachel Weisz

  War, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• With a group of people, a troupe of actors in the theater, you go out on tour, and you're like a traveling circus. It's very sociable, and there's a real community, and it's very intense, and then you may never see them again. That was very appealing. I mean, it wasn't consciously appealing, but I think a lot of actors like that.

  Rachel Weisz

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I just kind of muddled through in my 20s. I did whatever I got offered, to be honest, to pay the bills. I didn't really know what I was doing. There are some actors in their 20s who are very sure. I wasn't very sure what I was doing. I feel like I've only really just got going.

  Rachel Weisz

  Honest, Kind, Being Honest

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.

  Rachel Weisz

  Powerful, School, Dark

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

  Rachel Weisz

  Lonely, Writing, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.

  Rachel Weisz

  Laughing, Trying, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.

  Rachel Weisz

  Brother, Daydreaming, Activist

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I really wanted to do a comedy. I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one. I tried with two little parts in comedies that were more mainstream, I was kind of fumbling around, and then I read The Brothers Bloom and knew it was the one I wanted to jump into. Did it take adjusting? Actually, it's not really any different from doing drama.

  Rachel Weisz

  Brother, Drama, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When you're doing comedy, you're not trying to be funny. I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously. I think when people are winking, it becomes slapstick, it becomes something else.

  Rachel Weisz

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's really hard to make a good film; it's really, really hard. So, the director's very important, and a character that can be described with more than one or two adjectives, maybe with contradictions. Contradictions are always good because that's truthful.

  Rachel Weisz

  Character, Important, Truthful

  Source: www.glamour.com

• The thing about acting is even if you get technically more skilled at what you do, every time you begin a film or a play you're terrified. You don't know if you're going to pull it off. Every film and every story has its own set of challenges. I've never felt like, oh yeah, that's it, nailed it! You can never sit and rest. That's why it's such an exciting job. It's beginning again every time you begin again. New story, new character, new place, new time, new director. It's like moving to a different planet and trying to figure out how to live there.

  Rachel Weisz

  Moving, Character, Challenges

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Film is such a director's medium; you're really in their hands in terms of the real storytelling. As an actor, you can give a performance moment to moment and some of your takes will be used and some of them won't. I think there are great films you can make with bad performances, and vice versa. There are all combinations of those things. It's really down to the director what happens, I think, so that's why it's really good to work with very talented, bold directors.

  Rachel Weisz

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.glamour.com

• It's hard to remember that life is a miracle. We're just living it and we forget that.

  Rachel Weisz

  Miracle, Remember, Life Is

• I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized.

  Rachel Weisz

  Mean, Thinking, Brain

  Source: collider.com

• I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

  Rachel Weisz

  Stars, Writing, Letters

  Source: collider.com

• You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points.

  Rachel Weisz

  Fall, Kind, Achilles

  Source: collider.com

• (Human) beings, in Pagan times would kind of like, listen to the stories and, they could kind of, identify - . They were, like, bigger than them and more successful than them or more beautiful, but they had these human fallibilities. Which is like celebrities now. It's like, 'oh, she's in rehab. Oh, she's unfaithful. Oh, they're divorced. Oh, she's anorexic. Oh, he's had a nose job.' You know, whatever it might be.

  Rachel Weisz

  Beautiful, Jobs, Successful

  Source: collider.com

• The Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all incredibly beautiful and there were statues of them everywhere, which is the equivalent of magazines, or whatever, today. And they were fallible, which is different from being mono-, you know, Jewish or Islam (where) you have the infallible, monotheistic God.

  Rachel Weisz

  Beautiful, Islam, Today

  Source: collider.com

• We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about.

  Rachel Weisz

  Thinking, Rocks, Treats

  Source: collider.com

• Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.

  Rachel Weisz

  Believe, Yeah, Organized

  Source: collider.com

• You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know, the whole thing, and then the issue of women being educated in Middle Eastern - I mean, it just seems so contemporary. In terms of spirituality, it's interesting because I actually think (her character in Agora) Hypatia is very spiritual.

  Rachel Weisz

  Christian, Spiritual, Teaching

  Source: collider.com

• I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it? I mean, do people talk about this all the time?

  Rachel Weisz

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

• I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.

  Rachel Weisz

  Character, Stories

  Source: deadline.com