105 Quotes by Jacki Weaver

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.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.

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! Bye!'

The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

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

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.