Jacki Weaver Quotes

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• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility.…
• No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not…
• I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards…
• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes…
• A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
• Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
• I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
• I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
• I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
• I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
• I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
• I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I…
• I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
• I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
• I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
• I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'
• I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you!…
• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

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