Quotes by Jacki Weaver

Jacki Weaver

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

Choices

Choosy

Facts

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

Lioness

Lions

Thinking

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.

Play

Roles

Tennessee

David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That’s what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that’s what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.

Balls

Way

Years

Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don’t. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I’m just one of those people who’s always discontented.

Daughter

Mother

Thinking

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

Brilliant

Brother

Coen Brothers

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.’

America

Play

Song

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

Australia

Hollywood

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

Character

Knows

Play

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.

Australia

Lying

Years

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Acting

Adventure

America

Australia

Awards

Balls

Becoming

Brilliant

Brother

Careers

Character

Choices

Choosy

Coen Brothers

Crazy

Curb

Daughter

Delight

Drama

Eye

Facts

Function

Furniture

Girl

Growing Up

Hollywood

Home

Important

Knows

Laughing

Law

Lioness

Lions

Lying

Married

Mental Illness

Mom

Mother

New York

Parent

People

Play

Roles

Running

School

Silver

Son

Song

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Quotes by Jacki Weaver

Jacki Weaver

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

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

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.

Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don’t. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I’m just one of those people who’s always discontented.

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

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 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.

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