Quotes by Sigourney Weaver

About Sigourney Weaver:

Sigourney Weaver is an American actress and film producer. Following her film debut as a minor character in Annie Hall, she quickly came to prominence in 1979 with her first lead role as Ellen Ripley in Alien. She reprised the role in three sequels: Aliens (1986), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award Best Actress; Alien 3 (1992), and Alien: Resurrection (1997).
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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.

Sigourney Weaver

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.

Sigourney Weaver

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

Sigourney Weaver

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart...

Sigourney Weaver

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

Sigourney Weaver

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere ...

Sigourney Weaver

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

Sigourney Weaver

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

Sigourney Weaver

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.

Sigourney Weaver

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

Sigourney Weaver

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

Sigourney Weaver

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

Sigourney Weaver

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really.

Sigourney Weaver

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

Sigourney Weaver

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

Sigourney Weaver

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

Sigourney Weaver

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

Sigourney Weaver

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

Sigourney Weaver

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!

Sigourney Weaver

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

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Author Bio

  • NameSigourney Weaver
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • BornOctober 8, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Voice Actor