Jacki Weaver Quotes

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

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

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

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.

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!'

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.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

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

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.

I have no problem with my age. I've been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any point in lying about it.

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

I think we're all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.

I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced.

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.

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!

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

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.