Rachel Weisz Quotes

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

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

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

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.

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

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

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

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.

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

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

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.

I am proud of what I am. I am a librarian.

I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.

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

We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about.

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.

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.

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

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

It's hard to remember that life is a miracle. We're just living it and we forget that.

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

I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.

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.

L.A. makes you feel ugly.

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

If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.

People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

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.

I love to take baths.

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

I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly.

I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.

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.

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.

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.'

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

You have to be quite stupid to act.

I want to play interesting women.

Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.

I don't know anything about science.

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

I go and see music all the time.

I always do my interviews face to face.

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

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

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

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.