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 More Quotes by Sigourney Weaver More Quotes From Sigourney Weaver 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 would-be two Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner. Sigourney Weaver senior business bridges 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 loss heart 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 Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it. Sigourney Weaver encouragement people needs 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 rights animal thinking If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think. Sigourney Weaver value-systems ifs thinking It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time. Sigourney Weaver 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 fire heart character Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to! Sigourney Weaver guy It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part. Sigourney Weaver lure scripts care Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it. Sigourney Weaver teach roles 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 special pigs men Please, God, please, don't let me be normal! Sigourney Weaver let-me please normal I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major. Sigourney Weaver done drama way 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 ocean moving 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 over-you love-is 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 energy long world When I'm making the movie, I absolutely do. I work so hard, and out of the raw material that is the script and talks I have with the director, the writer, I create, I hope, a very specific person who wouldn't have otherwise existed. However, do I then attach and hang on to the finished product? No. The experience of the creation of the character is what feeds me, what excites me, challenges me. Sigourney Weaver creation challenges character I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time. Sigourney Weaver difficult-times used shy
