Quotes by Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver

After I left Yale, we were all doing these mad plays off – off Broadway. And I got back to that feeling I had from college, of everyone making up in front of one cracked mirror, which is what I loved – the scrappy theater idea. I think off-off Broadway healed me, made me an actor again, and I was in so many different crazy shows.

College

Crazy

Thinking

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

Art

Running

School

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Moving

Ocean

Weed

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

Roles

Teach

For the camera, particularly, I feel like – I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

Cameras

Interesting

Thinking

I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, “I’m so sorry this happened to you. I didn’t realize the people who were running the acting department at the drama school hated actors.” They did. And they were fired when I graduated.

Drama

Running

Sorry

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. They all had a high school. That vulnerability is completely permanent and, as an actor, it’s a good thing.

Character

Powerful

School

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

Difficult

New York

Things To Do

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 else.

September

Sometimes

Somewhere Else

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.

Call Me

Names

Twelve

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Actors

Afterlife

Age

Animal

Appetite

Art

Balance

Being Married

Believe

Bridges

Brother

Brows

Business

Call Me

Cameras

Challenges

Character

Children

Cities

Class

College

Community

Conning

Country

Crazy

Creation

Daughter

Different

Difficult

Difficult Times

Directors

Distance

Done

Drama

Dream

Energy

Ensemble

Environmental

Family

Father

Feelings

Fiction

Fire

Fun

Genius

Girl

Growing Up

Guy

Heart

Humanity

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Quotes by Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

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

For the camera, particularly, I feel like – I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, “I’m so sorry this happened to you. I didn’t realize the people who were running the acting department at the drama school hated actors.” They did. And they were fired when I graduated.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

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 else.

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.

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