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" 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. "

Sigourney Weaver

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Great

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" I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture. "

" 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. "

" 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

Listen

Environmental

" I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community. "

" I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything. "

Sigourney Weaver

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Movies

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Sigourney Weaver

Always

Bad

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Sigourney Weaver

Interesting

Woman

" I consider myself very much a team player. "

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

Sigourney Weaver

Very

Appetite

" 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

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" My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over. "

" I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had. "