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“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!”

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Sigourney Weaver

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“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.”

Thinking World Should Different Whole Girl Interesting Cities Behinds Streets New York Wall Goes On Scene Bother Should I Different Worlds Behind The Scenes Working Girl

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“I still am in touch with several friends from high school. I don't go to reunions much. I'm afraid that if I go back to the school, they'll suddenly go, 'You know what? We've checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.'”

Ifs Knows Stills School Class Records High School Get Back Reunion

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“I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.”

Thinking Important Stories Shows Film Interesting Audience Studios Really Interesting Indie Films

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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.”

Mean Self Wanted School Girl Conscious Tall Awkward Self Conscious Unimportant

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“I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.”

Knows Want Persons Done Lasts Proud Series Screws Skeptical Sequels Screw Ups

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“I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.”

Men World Littles Real Stories Able Film Company Comedy Wonderful Fortunate Dramatic Maps Pigs Bay Of Pigs

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“My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.”

Mind Different Character Father Stars Space Watches Strange Planets Aliens

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“My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.”

Father House Born Church Happened Husband Teenager Planes Ran My Husband Grandfather Roof Pearls Hawaii Harbors

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“People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.”

People Kind Running Groups Environmental All Kinds Nonsense Temper Diplomatic

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“What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.”

World Kind Character Film Fiction Audience Comedy Balance Drama Science Fiction All Kinds Around The World Aliens Now And Then Introducing Blockbuster

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