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" Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to! "
Sigourney Weaver
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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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" 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. "
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Goal
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages. "
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" I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy. "
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" People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy. "
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" I am a person who goes out without a purse. "
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Out
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Purse
" 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 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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Character
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Science
" For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting. "
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Interesting
Camera
Feel
" Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act! "
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Go
Always
Bad
" 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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Interesting
Dark
Me
" 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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Story
Men
Jump
" 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. "
Sigourney Weaver
School
Awkward
Tall
" 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. "
Sigourney Weaver
Look
Help
Guy
" 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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Done
Proud
Want
" 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. "
Sigourney Weaver
Acting
Job
Key
" 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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Up
Picture
You
" Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it. "
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Sort
Role
Prepare
" 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. "
Sigourney Weaver
Mind
Picture
Own
" 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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Father
Church
Husband
" I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major. "
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Always
Done
Drama
" I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things. "
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Very
Like
Appetite
" 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. "
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Name
Me
Tall
" I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had. "
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Happy
Had
Opportunities
" 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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Distance
Think
New York
" 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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Takes
I Love
Working
" I consider myself very much a team player. "
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Much
Player
Myself
" I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture. "
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