Rachel Weisz famous quotes

Botox should be banned for actors, as ***** are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
-- Rachel Weisz

#Expression #Iron #Acting

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Fire #Needs #Steam

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Capable

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Believe #Soul #Politics

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Relationship #Horse #People

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Thinking #Theatre #Very Happy

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Hurt #Children #Tree

Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Mother #Children #Giving

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Change #New York #Years

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
-- Rachel Weisz

#Flirting #People #The End Of The Day

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Envy #People #Compliment

I find Hollywood really toxic.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Hollywood #Toxic

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Narrative #Stories #Literature

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Actors #Storyteller #Entertainers

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Jobs #Goal #Unsure

I don't know anything about science.
-- Rachel Weisz

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Teacher #Thinking #Classroom

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Children #Perspective #Way

I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Home #Dying #Ridiculous

I am definitely a worrier.
-- Rachel Weisz

I'm too disorganized.
-- Rachel Weisz

I always do my interviews face to face.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Faces #Interviews

Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
-- Rachel Weisz

#People #Together #Things Happen

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Children #Real #Hippie

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Mum

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Change #Agents #Surnames

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Loss #Political #Stories

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Sexy #People #Rooms

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Running #Brother #Woods

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Believe #Ocean #Thinking

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Thinking #Drawing #Choices

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Sexy #Thinking #London

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Believe #People #Causes

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Women #Mean #Blow

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Centre

L.A. makes you feel ugly.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Ugly #Feels

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Thinking #Balance #Progress

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Jobs #Able #Actresses

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Country #Believe #World

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Party #Oscars

He really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Fighting #Men #People

I love to take baths.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Baths

You have to be quite stupid to act.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Stupid

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Funny #Character #Thinking

If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Thinking #Intimidating

I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Girl #Blow #Different

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Roles

I go and see music all the time.
-- Rachel Weisz

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Sexy #People

I want to play interesting women.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Play #Interesting #Want

I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Funny #Neurosis #Doe

As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Beauty #Running #Fall

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Sexy #Interesting #Risk

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Mother #Children #Challenges

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
-- Rachel Weisz

#Girl #Winning #Thinking

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Names #People #Tribes

I think mystery is kind of great. I don't know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner - not really - and I like that. I love watching their movies because they're my personal movie stars. I don't know what they eat and who their trainer is.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Stars #Thinking #Kind

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Reality #Night #Upset

Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from different cultures and places. I suppose I'm a bit quieter than most of the people I play.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Sexy #Fun #Play

I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Thinking #Comforting #Easier

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Real #Water #Scary