Jacki Weaver Quotes - Page 2

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• No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

  Jacki Weaver

  Home, Thinking, Furniture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

  Jacki Weaver

  Winning, Awards, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.

  Jacki Weaver

  Believe, People, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Emily [Blunt] is such a giggler, she has such a positive life force about her and she's so giggly in a naughty sort of schoolgirl way that it kind of brings out the worst in you, you just love making her laugh. And also Nick Stoller has one of the best laughs. It's so infectious and whenever he laughs at something you do, it's like giving us a reward.

  Jacki Weaver

  Positive Life, Naughty, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

  Jacki Weaver

  Song, America, Play

  "Jacki Weaver Interview ANIMAL KINGDOM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

  Jacki Weaver

  Character, Play, Stuff

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

  Jacki Weaver

  Jobs, Challenges, New Job

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who's Japanese. I don't know what she's going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.

  Jacki Weaver

  Daughter, Running, Law

  Source: collider.com

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• Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

  Jacki Weaver

  Brother, Brilliant, Coen Brothers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  Jacki Weaver

  Brother, Crazy, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

  Jacki Weaver

  Mother, Facts, Problem

  "Jacki Weaver and Jim Piddock The Five-Year Engagement Seat Visit Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 02, 2012.

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• The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.

  Jacki Weaver

  America, Australia, Law

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  Jacki Weaver

  Feet, Five

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

  Jacki Weaver

  Delight, Theater, Function

  "Jacki Weaver Interview Animal Kingdom". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

  Jacki Weaver

  Growing Up, Listening, Ears

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

  Jacki Weaver

  Thinking, Grace, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• 'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

  Jacki Weaver

  Choices, Facts, Choosy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

  Jacki Weaver

  Eye, Soul, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

  Jacki Weaver

  Girl, Mom, Sweet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think we're all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves.

  Jacki Weaver

  Thinking, Able, Curb

  Source: collider.com

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• Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.

  Jacki Weaver

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.

  Jacki Weaver

  Mean Girls, Thinking, Media

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must hit your marks, you must be punctual and cheerful and kind. I'm always irritated with young people who misbehave and young actors who are temperamental. I don't think there's any need for it.

  Jacki Weaver

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.

  Jacki Weaver

  Years, Balls, Way

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, generous way - it seemed crazy not to take advantage of it. I hope for another 20 years where I can still keep going.

  Jacki Weaver

  Crazy, Years, Acting

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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