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" I love the role of Ripley. "

Sigourney Weaver

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers. "

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" I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy. "

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" I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" I am a person who goes out without a purse. "

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" I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything. "

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" 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 too much. People pick up on things. "

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" 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 the 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.' "

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" 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. "

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" I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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! "

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" 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. "

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" 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 more interesting. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I love playing an alien. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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