Top 40 Sigourney Weaver Quotes

I’m a natural golden retriever at heart. I’m fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.

I’m no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don’t get to do that very often.

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.

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

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.

I have a very commercial appetite. I don’t like to do high-brow things.

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.

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

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

I love the role of Ripley.

Maybe you’re better to play a villain just straight out.

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.

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

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!

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.

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.

If you come back from the dead, you don’t have the same value system, I think.

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.

I consider myself very much a team player.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

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.

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.

People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.

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.

I love working quickly. I don’t like to do thousands of takes, and I don’t want to do thousands of set ups.

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

I love playing an alien.

There’s a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

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 Jekyl and Hyde.

It won’t be long before the Facebook generation will be rejected by the non-Facebook people who will be rejected by the post-Facebook people. Everyone will be on their own planet.

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.

Every time there’s a really good story, there’s women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.

I don’t want to leave New York and leave my family. I don’t like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it’s kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

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.