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“Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.”

People Needs Enough Depends Encouragement

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“When you hit your strive, and you feel confident in what you're doing and in your process, you really want to do more and try lots of different things. I've also really worked on my breathing, which is a funny thing to talk about, if you're not an actor. 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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“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.”

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“Sorry men, but I think boys are a little more oblivious in high school. Girls are just more sensitive. We're so concerned about how we look and how we're doing.”

Thinking Men Looks Littles School Girl Boys High School Concerned Sorry Sensitive Oblivious School Girl Sorry Men

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

Persons Pockets Coats Purses Accessories

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“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.”

Kind Long Term Acting Careers Tradition Theater Long Term Progressive

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“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.”

Thinking Hard Difficult Interest Comedy Particular Findings Profound Delighted Ensemble

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“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.”

People Thinking Animal Class Rights Planets Citizens Equal Thirds Equal Rights

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“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.”

People Thinking Way Children Courses Emotion Taught Starting Communicate Shy Reverse Good Way

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

Care Scripts Lure

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“I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel quite sick that they have to caricature older women in such a negative way.”

Way Feels Sometimes Negative Sick Scripts Mainstream Grotesque Caricatures Older Women

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

Play Character Roles Arcs Supporting Roles

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

Thinking Knows Kind Children Loss Our Children Illness Touched

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“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.”

Fun College Makeup Lear English Major

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“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.”

School Hours Serious Drama Founders Eastern

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“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.”

Talent Old Woman Wendy Cabaret

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“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.”

Running Mother Father Talent

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“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.”

People Long Running School Realizing Acting Drama Sorry Hated Apology

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“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.”

People World Giving Art School Fun Acting Situation Painter Obsessed Filmmaker

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

Art Running School Difficult Generous Academic

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“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.”

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“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.”

World Long Helping Energy Wonderful Married

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“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.”

Thinking Different Feelings Crazy College Mad Making Up

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“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.”

Character Challenges Creation

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“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.”

Different Country Character Common Letting Go

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“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.”

Thinking World Trying Genius

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

Believe Married Being Married

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“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.”

Universe Interesting

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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.”

People Thinking Humanity Brain Science Fiction Being Human Caught Up

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“Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.”

Thinking Way Kind Sometimes Happens Turns Given Hurt Honest Trust Encouragement Impression All Kinds Being Honest Been Hurt

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“It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.”

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“I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.”

I Can Science Fiction Imagine Science Fiction Mars Colony

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“Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.”

Play Villain

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“Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!”

Wanted My Own Vegas Las Vegas

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“I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.”

Way Made Hard Dream Father My Own Seeing Strive Satisfaction Afterlife Fulfilled Observing

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“Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.”

Roles Teach

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

Thinking Feels Humans Faces Interesting Cameras Human Faces

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“Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.”

Trying Wish Goal Pleasure Vices Guilty Saying No Guilty Pleasure

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“I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.”

Difficult New York Things To Do

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“I am a person who goes out without a purse.”

Persons Purses

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“I consider myself very much a team player.”

Player Team Team Player

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“I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.”

Feels Self Hard Easy Doubt Self-doubt

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

Way Done Drama Majors Theater

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

Appetite Brows

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“I love playing an alien.”

Aliens

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“I love the role of Ripley.”

Roles

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“I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.”

Want

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“I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.”

People Thinking Firsts Film Young Fun Filmmaker

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“I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.”

Feels Together Actors Enjoy Peers

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“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.”

Thinking Challenges Comedy Pieces Drama Picks Back And Forth

Author:Sigourney Weaver

About the Author

Born: October 8, 1949
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 101

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