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

Sigourney Weaver

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" I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant. "

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

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

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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 love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I love the role of Ripley. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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