105 Quotes by Jacki Weaver

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’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 is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

I don’t play many characters like myself. Oh I don’t know what I am!

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I’m an optimist, so I like to think we’ve progressed in some ways – in Australia, we get equal pay.

Even in Australia I’d say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.

I love getting presents. And awards. I’d do whatever they told me to do.

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. I think just what’s happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I’m at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

I’m good at not laughing. It’s not that I don’t want to. I’m too old and experienced.

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 it’ll work better than you expected.