Jacki Weaver famous quotes

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

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Sweet #Play #Roles

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Parent #Trying #Married

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'
-- Jacki Weaver

#Voice #Stories #Toys

I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
-- Jacki Weaver

#Goodbye #Love You #People

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

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

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

#Feet

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

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Awards

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Beads

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

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
-- Jacki Weaver

#Character #Play

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Imagination #Effort #Actors

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
-- Jacki Weaver

#New York #Hate #Actors

I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Sweet #Children #Gay

I love when I am not typecast. I've been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Baby #Children #Years

In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Growing Up #Son #Australia

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Thinking #Australia #Equal Pay

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Twilight #Adventure #Thinking

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

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

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 #Play #Yesterday

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

#Character #Play #Stuff

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

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

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

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.
-- Jacki Weaver

#People #Lovely #Culture

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Thinking #Lioness #Lions

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Brother #Brilliant #Coen Brothers

I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
-- Jacki Weaver

#Sex #Believe #Effort

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
-- Jacki Weaver

#Australia #Hollywood

'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