Jacki Weaver Quotes

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

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 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.

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

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

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

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

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.

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

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

I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

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

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

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

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

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!'

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

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