Latest Sigourney Weaver Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that's what I really dig about science fiction these days - we've caught up to it in a way. It's no longer about people with huge brains. Now it's really much more, as Jim Cameron says, the nature of being human. What it is to be human in society. How to retain one's humanity in society.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Thinking, People, Humanity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Only someone who believes in marriage would be married five times.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Believe, Married, Being Married

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• What I love about Neill's Blomkamp work is that his stories are small human stories. But what's interesting about Neill's movies is that they're set in the future but they're so incredibly timely that it feels like maybe in the present in the next dimension. It feels like it's happening now. The universe is very recognizable, in many ways.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Interesting, Universe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• James Cameron thinks we can do anything. He'll let you try anything. There are very few geniuses in the world, let alone in our business, and he's certainly one of them.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Thinking, Trying, Genius

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I'm making the movie, I absolutely do. I work so hard, and out of the raw material that is the script and talks I have with the director, the writer, I create, I hope, a very specific person who wouldn't have otherwise existed. However, do I then attach and hang on to the finished product? No. The experience of the creation of the character is what feeds me, what excites me, challenges me.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Character, Challenges, Creation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I guess it's a pretty common experience while making a movie. You have to let go of the result and just hang on to the experience and the process, where each role takes you to a different country, as it were: You're shipwrecked on this new island, you have no clothes, you have to figure out how you're going to live in this new character. All of that turns me on.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Letting Go, Country, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Long, Energy, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• After I left Yale, we were all doing these mad plays off - off Broadway. And I got back to that feeling I had from college, of everyone making up in front of one cracked mirror, which is what I loved - the scrappy theater idea. I think off-off Broadway healed me, made me an actor again, and I was in so many different crazy shows.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Crazy, College, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I can do five things at once. I'm tapping my foot, I'm opening my mouth and talking to you, and looking at the bulletin board.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, "I'm so sorry this happened to you. I didn't realize the people who were running the acting department at the drama school hated actors." They did. And they were fired when I graduated.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, Sorry, Drama

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I wouldn't recommend it, because art school is a funny business. Yes, if you can find a situation where they'll give you money to live at the school and do whatever you want and pay for all your materials, if you're a painter or maybe a filmmaker, do it. But acting should be the most fun thing in the world; you're surrounded by other people who are as obsessed with Anton Chekhov as you are.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Art, Fun, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, Art, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In Yale they convinced me I had no talent, even though I was always working. They cast me mostly as prostitutes and old women, and I stayed because I loved the writers. I loved Chris Durang and Wendy Wasserstein. I was always doing their work in the Yale Cabaret.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Talent, Cabaret, Old Woman

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My mother said, "Pack your bags and leave." And my father said, "I've already paid for a year and a half - why don't you stay and get the degree?" And I said, "That's a good idea, because then I can at least run a theater even though I have no talent, and I'll never be an actor." It's my fault that I believed them.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, Mother, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was in college, I was an English major, but I was part of this great group at Stanford called the Company. We didn't know any better, so we did it all; we did King Lear, we did Hamlet, new plays ... And we did it all in a covered wagon that we took around the Bay Area. We all put our makeup on in one cracked mirror. It was the most fun I've ever had.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Fun, College, Makeup

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I went to Yale, I thought it would be like in Stenford 24 hours a day. Robert Brustein, former dean of the Yale School of Drama and founder of the Yale Repertory Theater was there, and we did all this very serious - I would go so far as to say completely humorless - Eastern European drama, as well as August Strindberg, and Henrik Ibsen, we weren't allowed to do William Shakespeare or Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. I was not in the right place.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Drama, School, Serious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Children, Loss, Thinking

  "Actress Sigourney Weaver Talks About Redefining The Leading Lady Role". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, wbaa.org. January 8, 2017.

• It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Character, Play, Roles

  "Actress Sigourney Weaver Talks About Redefining The Leading Lady Role". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, wvik.org. January 8, 2017.

• It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Care, Scripts, Lure

  "‘Chappie’ Interviews: Weaver and Copley On Gangstas, Ghostbusters & More". Interview with Kofi Outlaw, screenrant.com. March 7, 2015.

• I've always been very shy and sheltered; I think it was a good way of starting to communicate with people. I was taught as a child never to talk about myself, never to talk about my emotions. Of course, now I talk about myself constantly. Now I have to take reverse est.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Animal, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more profound. But finding a good one and a great ensemble is very difficult to do and I'm delighted that in these particular times there is so much interest in comedy and that comedy is having so much success.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Thinking, Profound, Ensemble

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Careers, Long, Acting

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Pockets, Accessories, Coats

  Source: collider.com

• I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful really. They all had a high school. That vulnerability is completely permanent and, as an actor, it's a good thing.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Powerful, School, Character

  Source: collider.com