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" I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is. "

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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. "

Sigourney Weaver

Generation

Think

Nice

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to 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. "

" I love the role of Ripley. "

" 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. "

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

Sigourney Weaver

Interesting

Woman

" 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. "

" There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Sigourney Weaver

Enjoy

Together

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out. "

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

" Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to! "

Sigourney Weaver

You

Who

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sigourney Weaver

Interesting

Dark

" 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. "

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