Sigourney Weaver Quotes

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• Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Dream, Heart, Loss

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• Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Encouragement, People, Needs

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• Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Senior, Business, Bridges

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• 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.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Brother, Two, Would Be

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• Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

  Sigourney Weaver

  Normal, Let Me, Please

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• When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Inspirational Life, Love Is, Over You

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• It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Family, Feelings, Proof

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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

  Goal, Wish, Trying

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• It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

  Sigourney Weaver

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• Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Animal, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Yale they convinced me I had no talent, even though I was always working. They cast me mostly as prostitutes and old women, and I stayed because I loved the writers. I loved Chris Durang and Wendy Wasserstein. I was always doing their work in the Yale Cabaret.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Talent, Cabaret, Old Woman

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Names, Twelve, Call Me

  Esquire, January 2010.

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• I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Care, Bigger, Small Parts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Guy, Looks, World

  "Sigourney Weaver: No Damsel In Distress". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 13, 2012.

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

  Sigourney Weaver

  Purses, Persons

  "Sigourney Weaver Interview You Again". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Heart, Character, Fire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Someday hopefully it won’t be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we’ve come…someday women writers, producers and crew members will be so commonplace, and roles and salaries for actresses will outstrip those for men, and pigs will fly.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Men, Pigs, Special

  "'Women In Hollywood' draws stars". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 7, 2008.

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

  Sigourney Weaver

  Thinking, Value Systems, Ifs

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• I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Science, Fiction, Mars

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• Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on a scale that has not occurred for tens of millions of years. So we confront an urgent choice: to move beyond fossil fuels or to risk turning the ocean into a sea of weeds.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Weed, Moving, Ocean

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

  Sigourney Weaver

  Roles, Teach

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

  Sigourney Weaver

  Guy

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• If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Long, Energy, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Self, Doubt, Easy

  "Sigourney Weaver: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2009.

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• Only someone who believes in marriage would be married five times.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Believe, Married, Being Married

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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