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Art school is a very difficul...

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

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I wouldn't recommend it, beca...

I wouldn't recommend it, because art school is a funny business. Yes, if you can find a situation where they'll give you money to live at the school and do whatever you want and pay for all your materials, if you're a painter or maybe a filmmaker, do it. But acting should be the most fun thing in the world; you're surrounded by other people who are as obsessed with Anton Chekhov as you are.

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I am sent too many mainstream...

I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel quite sick that they have to caricature older women in such a negative way.

Sigourney Weaver 121 quotes

It's always the script that's...

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

Sigourney Weaver 121 quotes

I'd rather have a small part ...

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Sigourney Weaver 121 quotes

Most people think that animal...

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Sigourney Weaver 121 quotes

When you're young, there's so...

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

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In the past, 'Avatar' would h...

In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

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Here's a vice: I say yes to t...

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 121 quotes

People who run environmental ...

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 121 quotes

When I'm making the movie, I ...

When I'm making the movie, I absolutely do. I work so hard, and out of the raw material that is the script and talks I have with the director, the writer, I create, I hope, a very specific person who wouldn't have otherwise existed. However, do I then attach and hang on to the finished product? No. The experience of the creation of the character is what feeds me, what excites me, challenges me.

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What I love about the 'Alien'...

What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.

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I think that's what I really ...

I think that's what I really dig about science fiction these days - we've caught up to it in a way. It's no longer about people with huge brains. Now it's really much more, as Jim Cameron says, the nature of being human. What it is to be human in society. How to retain one's humanity in society.

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When I was in college, I was ...

When I was in college, I was an English major, but I was part of this great group at Stanford called the Company. We didn't know any better, so we did it all; we did King Lear, we did Hamlet, new plays ... And we did it all in a covered wagon that we took around the Bay Area. We all put our makeup on in one cracked mirror. It was the most fun I've ever had.

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When I went to Yale, I though...

When I went to Yale, I thought it would be like in Stenford 24 hours a day. Robert Brustein, former dean of the Yale School of Drama and founder of the Yale Repertory Theater was there, and we did all this very serious - I would go so far as to say completely humorless - Eastern European drama, as well as August Strindberg, and Henrik Ibsen, we weren't allowed to do William Shakespeare or Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. I was not in the right place.

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As long as your robot isn't p...

As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.

Sigourney Weaver 121 quotes

I guess it's a pretty common ...

I guess it's a pretty common experience while making a movie. You have to let go of the result and just hang on to the experience and the process, where each role takes you to a different country, as it were: You're shipwrecked on this new island, you have no clothes, you have to figure out how you're going to live in this new character. All of that turns me on.

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Never burn bridges. Today's j...

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Sigourney Weaver 121 quotes

Don't depend on other people'...

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

Sigourney Weaver 121 quotes

I am a person who goes out wi...

I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.

Sigourney Weaver 121 quotes

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