105 Quotes by Jacki Weaver

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

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'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you do pick the same choices, just as a matter of course - not because someone else did it first, but because it was the best choice to make. But any actor worth his salt makes something their own.

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