Jacki Weaver Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“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.”

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

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

“It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.”

“A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.”

“Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.”

“I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.”

“I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.”

“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.”