Sigourney Weaver Quotes:- Sigourney Weaver (born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. She is primarily known for her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise. The role earned her an Academy Award nomination in 1986 and is often regarded as one of the most significant female protagonists in all of cinema.
Inspirational Sigourney Weaver Quotes
“Every time there’s a really good story, there are women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I have a very commercial appetite. I don’t like to do high-brow things.”-Sigourney Weaver
“Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.”-Sigourney Weaver
“Maybe you’re better to play a villain just straight out.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I love the role of Ripley.”-Sigourney Weaver
“If you come back from the dead, you don’t have the same value system, I think.”-Sigourney Weaver
Best Quotes from Sigourney Weaver movies and TV shows
“Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I’m always the last person they go to with a sequel because I’m the most skeptical. You know, I’m very proud of what we’ve done, and I don’t want to screw up our series.”-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.”-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 else.”-Sigourney Weaver
“It’s such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I still am in touch with several friends from high school. I don’t go to reunions much. I’m afraid that if I go back to school, they’ll suddenly go, ‘You know what? We’ve checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.'”-Sigourney Weaver
60+ best Sigourney Weaver Quotes
“Here’s a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.”-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
“I was at an all-girls’ school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.”-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
Famous Sigourney Weaver Quotes About Life
“Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don’t turn out the way you’re given the impression that they will. And I think that’s all kind of a con. But I think we’ve probably all been hurt.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I don’t really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.”-Sigourney Weaver
“My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind… maybe closer to Alien. I don’t see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.”-Sigourney Weaver
“With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it’s possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.”-Sigourney Weaver
“As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyll and Hyde.”-Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver Quotes About Hollywood
“I’d be more interested in doing a smaller, character-driven thing, rather than another action picture.”-Sigourney Weaver
“Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!”-Sigourney Weaver
“It’s rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them… to see this happen to our city and our community.”-Sigourney Weaver
“My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather’s house and watched the planes go over.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I love playing an alien.”-Sigourney Weaver
“One of the reasons I did this because I wasn’t really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She’s 9 and it’s really a good film for all ages.”-Sigourney Weaver
“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
Sigourney Weaver Quotes About New York
“I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I never think about Wall Street – why should I – but go down there so often while filming ‘Working Girl,’ to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes, is so interesting. There’s so much of the city that you don’t really bother to investigate. Ahh… New York.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I’d never been a drama major.”-Sigourney Weaver
“That whole generation that’s gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to live. If something bad happened, they didn’t sit at home, eat Haagen-Dazs, and watch a movie.”-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, and wicked.”-Sigourney Weaver
“Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are – to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I feel self-doubt whether I’m doing something hard or easy.”-Sigourney Weaver
Top Sigourney Weaver Quotes About Love
“I consider myself very much a team player.”-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 that I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it’s a helpful way into 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
“When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point of view for people who aren’t there. That’s what an actor does with a character. But the real-life is more interesting.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I think indie films are really important because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.”-Sigourney Weaver
Top 10 Sigourney Weaver Quotes And Sayings
“What I perceive in science fiction is that it’s more about how everything looks than what’s going on, which I think is just difficult if you’re an action character. I think they are about character, not about what it looks like.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I’m very happy with the opportunities I’ve had.”-Sigourney Weaver
“We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.”-Sigourney Weaver
“There’s a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.”-Sigourney Weaver
“For the camera, particularly, I feel like – I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.”-Sigourney Weaver
“People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I’d love to tell actors about all the things they don’t need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don’t need to show it too much. People pick up on things.”-Sigourney Weaver
“I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I’ll always pick a comedy over a drama.”-Sigourney Weaver
