Sigourney Weaver Quotes

Watching 'Profit' is like peering into a fishbowl and watching a piranha at work.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

I loved playing the headmistress in 'The Falling' - she was so spiteful. She certainly fancied herself quite a lot.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

In conspiracies, men who know what they wanted commonly ended by controlling the men who did not.

If you would know the depth of meanness of human nature, you have got to be a prime minister running for a general election.

I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time.