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

Sigourney Weaver

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

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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 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 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 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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" 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. "

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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. "

Sigourney Weaver

" 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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" 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. "

Sigourney Weaver

" 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. "

Sigourney Weaver

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

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

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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! "

Sigourney Weaver

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

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" I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often. "

Sigourney Weaver

" 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

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

Sigourney Weaver

" 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. "

Sigourney Weaver

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

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

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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. "

Sigourney Weaver

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

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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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" 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 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. "

Sigourney Weaver

" 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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" 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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