77+ Sigourney Weaver Quotes On Science, Doc Martin And Jennifer Lawrence

Sigourney Weaver is an American actress best known for her work in the Alien franchise, as well as the Ghostbusters films. She has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won a Golden Globe Award. She is also known for her roles in Avatar, The Ice Storm, and Gorillas in the Mist. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sigourney Weaver on love, life, science.

Top 10 Sigourney Weaver Quotes

1. Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.
5. 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.
6. If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.
7. In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.
8. Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.
9. Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.
10. What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

Sigourney Weaver Short Quotes

• Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!
• I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
• Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!
• It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.
• As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.
• There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.
• Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.
• I am a person who goes out without a purse.
• Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.
• I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

Sigourney Weaver Quotes About Love

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 love playing an alien. — Sigourney Weaver

I love the role of Ripley. — Sigourney Weaver

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups. — Sigourney Weaver

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

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

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. — Sigourney Weaver

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. — Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver Quotes About Play

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. — Sigourney Weaver

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. — Sigourney Weaver

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

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out. — 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

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc. — Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver Quotes About Kind

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. — Sigourney Weaver

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. — Sigourney Weaver

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me. — 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 think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize. — Sigourney Weaver

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive. — Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver Quotes About Film

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. — Sigourney Weaver

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories. — Sigourney Weaver

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

Sigourney Weaver Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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. — Sigourney Weaver

What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me. — Sigourney Weaver

Sorry men, but I think boys are a little more oblivious in high school. Girls are just more sensitive. We're so concerned about how we look and how we're doing. — Sigourney Weaver

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled. — Sigourney Weaver

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. — Sigourney Weaver

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. — Sigourney Weaver

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.' — Sigourney Weaver

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

It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more profound. But finding a good one and a great ensemble is very difficult to do and I'm delighted that in these particular times there is so much interest in comedy and that comedy is having so much success. — Sigourney Weaver

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. They all had a high school. That vulnerability is completely permanent and, as an actor, it's a good thing. — Sigourney Weaver

I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories. — Sigourney Weaver

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

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy. — Sigourney Weaver

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

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

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

I've always been very shy and sheltered; I think it was a good way of starting to communicate with people. I was taught as a child never to talk about myself, never to talk about my emotions. Of course, now I talk about myself constantly. Now I have to take reverse est. — Sigourney Weaver

When you hit your strive, and you feel confident in what you're doing and in your process, you really want to do more and try lots of different things. I've also really worked on my breathing, which is a funny thing to talk about, if you're not an actor. 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

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 consider myself very much a team player. — Sigourney Weaver

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

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time. — Sigourney Weaver

I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything. — Sigourney Weaver

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. — Sigourney Weaver

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do. — Sigourney Weaver

I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things. — Sigourney Weaver

I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel quite sick that they have to caricature older women in such a negative way. — Sigourney Weaver

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy. — Sigourney Weaver

I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York. — Sigourney Weaver

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers. — Sigourney Weaver

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

I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had. — Sigourney Weaver

Life Lessons by Sigourney Weaver

1. Sigourney Weaver has taught us to stay true to our convictions and never give up on our dreams. She has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can help us reach our goals, no matter how difficult they may seem.
2. She has also shown us that it is possible to remain humble and generous even when we have achieved success.
3. Finally, she has shown us that it is possible to remain passionate and creative throughout our lives, no matter what challenges we may face.