Jacki Weaver quote: "I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door."

I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I...
JACKI WEAVER

I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people e...
JACKI WEAVER

The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now t...
JACKI WEAVER

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

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
JACKI WEAVER

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

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture tha...
JACKI WEAVER

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure o...
JACKI WEAVER

When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there...
JACKI WEAVER

The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most impo...
JACKI WEAVER

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to b...
JACKI WEAVER

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like...
JACKI WEAVER

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

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to b...
JACKI WEAVER

When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off ...
JACKI WEAVER

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

I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than...
JACKI WEAVER

It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English co...
JACKI WEAVER

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to thi...
JACKI WEAVER

In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesam...
JACKI WEAVER

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a...
JACKI WEAVER

I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
JACKI WEAVER

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to...
JACKI WEAVER

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
JACKI WEAVER

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as ...
JACKI WEAVER

I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweethear...
JACKI WEAVER

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

I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simo...
JACKI WEAVER

A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor...
JACKI WEAVER

Every day in our jail I think we have someone who is talking about ending their own lives. How do yo...
JACKI TALLMAN

We don't want one; we're not happy with four.
JACKI TALLMAN

I think the entire corrections community would like to say we can prevent this from happening, and, ...
JACKI TALLMAN

These are the people who think, 'Yeah, I know Arizona.' Our goal is to show them there is more to Ar...
JACKI MIELER

There's been a lot of buzz about Generation X and the growth of this market.
JACKI MIELER

Those cities are the hub of activity for the Gen X market. Eventually the Web site will expand and w...
JACKI MIELER

It's a selling point for Arizona.
JACKI MIELER

We finally have a workable case. It opens up a world to us.
JACKI KELLEY

We were never certain the man was in the home alone.
JACKI KELLEY

These (gusts) will knock you over if you're not standing with your feet apart. The winds have been d...
JACKI KELLEY

This season was more special than others. It was supposed to be our down year. In that (Nike tournam...
JACKI GEMELOS

I didn't eat or sleep for the first three days. I was just staring at the wall, and kind of in shock...
JACKI GEMELOS

I can't dwell on it. I know it's going to make me better - I have no doubt in my mind.
JACKI GEMELOS

(I'm) not surprised because I thought I was right there. I'm extremely happy about it.
JACKI GEMELOS

They thought it was better that I didn't do it. I understand where they're coming from.
JACKI GEMELOS

I could barely watch. Every time the other team scored, I put my head down.
JACKI GEMELOS

I was in the air, and I felt a pop in my right knee.
JACKI GEMELOS

I want to win state. It's the same goal I've had every year since I was a freshman.
JACKI GEMELOS

I don't think it's necessarily right.
JACKI GEMELOS

It was very cool. I didn't expect it, but I was happy when I found out.
JACKI GEMELOS

For 12 years, we've been trying to get him back. It was good that his teaching last time was on pati...
JACKI ELDER

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've go...
EARL WEAVER

Science is not gadgetry.
WARREN WEAVER

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this...
WARREN WEAVER

People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I ...
EARL WEAVER

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
EARL WEAVER

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
EARL WEAVER

When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its pl...
EARL WEAVER

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
EARL WEAVER

To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 gu...
EARL WEAVER

There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he ...
EARL WEAVER

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words...
EARL WEAVER

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who playe...
EARL WEAVER

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anythi...
EARL WEAVER

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
EARL WEAVER

Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's lean...
EARL WEAVER

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smar...
EARL WEAVER

There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're mak...
EARL WEAVER

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That'...
EARL WEAVER

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
EARL WEAVER

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
EARL WEAVER

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
EARL WEAVER

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
EARL WEAVER

The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
EARL WEAVER

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always t...
EARL WEAVER

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
EARL WEAVER

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
EARL WEAVER

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything...
EARL WEAVER

It was about the same. She was hardly in there from the beginning. We were just on.
ADONNA WEAVER

We can learn from this game. We just have to do the little things right.
ADONNA WEAVER

That late three-pointer in regulation, that was luck. The rest of their shooting, they had it on all...
ADONNA WEAVER

We weren't blocking out as well as we could. Angelina had a strong post game.
ADONNA WEAVER

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
DENNIS WEAVER

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere ...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything e...
EARL WEAVER

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
RICHARD WEAVER

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
EARL WEAVER

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
DENNIS WEAVER

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ...
DENNIS WEAVER

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to ...
DENNIS WEAVER

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up...
DENNIS WEAVER

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they ...
DENNIS WEAVER

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!
DENNIS WEAVER

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, prim...
DENNIS WEAVER

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out...
DENNIS WEAVER

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
DENNIS WEAVER

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.
DENNIS WEAVER

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.
DENNIS WEAVER

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.
DENNIS WEAVER

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely...
DENNIS WEAVER

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way w...
DENNIS WEAVER

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave...
DENNIS WEAVER

Business must be the solution, not the problem.
DENNIS WEAVER

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.
DENNIS WEAVER

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we rega...
DENNIS WEAVER

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.
DENNIS WEAVER

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
DENNIS WEAVER

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.
D.J. WEAVER

Offensive linemen arent real athletes.
ANTHONY WEAVER

But I don't about the facts. I know Jamal's character, and to me, he's always been a straightforward...
ANTHONY WEAVER

We want to see them at full strength. They beat us twice last season, and even though it's preseason...
ANTHONY WEAVER

I wouldn't have expected this in a million years.
ANTHONY WEAVER

You'd love to have a guy go out there and get made and kick somebody's (butt), but that's not him. B...
ANTHONY WEAVER

It's going great. It's going to be an aggressive defense and it's going to be fun to watch. Hopefull...
ANTHONY WEAVER

We believed in each other, and we never gave up.
ANTHONY WEAVER

If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air b...
DENNIS WEAVER

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he ...
EARL WEAVER

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got clo...
EARL WEAVER

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.
EARL WEAVER

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
WARREN WEAVER

Quite a few people were asking questions about her after the meet. They thought she was older than t...
BRIAN WEAVER

It all depends on the weather. That's going to be the biggest factor. We've had quite a few phone ca...
BRIAN WEAVER

That's like the $64,000 question. Only time will tell how good she's really going to be. Everyone is...
BRIAN WEAVER

That is our focus, to try to get the meet going in that direction, bring back the high school luster...
BRIAN WEAVER

I have to thank Randy Decker for providing me with the great equipment that allows me to be here.
BRIAN WEAVER

When there's a state championship in town, it's pretty extensive the money that's spent. So it could...
BRIAN WEAVER

Everything looks really good. They just have to look at a couple things.
BRIAN WEAVER

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, S...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

Vouchers do not fit into the equation of public education.
BILL WEAVER

Ultimately, the education of children is the state's responsibility.
BILL WEAVER

I want to put a little common sense back in Lincoln.
BILL WEAVER

The people are great and rock solid in their beliefs. It's something you're not going to find to thi...
BILL WEAVER

I find the catering services to be very good. They're very accurate. They know the business and the ...
BILL WEAVER

When we take over a system from someone else, it's a common practice to audit it. But right now we a...
BILL WEAVER

If someone is taking unauthorized cable, they are not paying their franchise fees. Someone might be ...
BILL WEAVER

The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
EARL WEAVER

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older ch...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

Not every lawyer gets to the Supreme Court frequently, and some lawyers never get there.
DAVID WEAVER

Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

We panicked at that point. We didn't go to the boards. We stood and watched. It's what unseasoned pl...
PHIL WEAVER

Bad ballplayers make good managers.
EARL WEAVER

The movie business divides women into ice queens and sluts, and there have been times I wanted to be...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a ...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

It took a lot for Chris to deal with this all in stride. I saw the agony on his face during practice...
JAMIE WEAVER

'Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite seri...
RICHARD WEAVER

The bus that they would get on stops at a stop sign outside our campaign headquarters. The only requ...
JEFF WEAVER

I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
EARL WEAVER

We already knew that powerful quasars are very efficient at making light. Now we know that black hol...
KIM WEAVER

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most chan...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

I can't tell you how fast these fires have ignited. It's just crazy.
TRACI WEAVER

With these cuts, the state now has little or no ability to help communities apply the scientific fin...
CRAIG WEAVER

We've been working a lot and hard on our hitting this past week and it paid off today.
CHERYL WEAVER

Do any other board members want to start over? I certainly hope not, but let's vote on it.
RICHARD WEAVER

The United States lost more men from battle wounds and disease in the Civil War than in any other wa...
RICHARD WEAVER

Man is a mixture of good and evil, and he can never be perfected in this life. The notion of his nat...
RICHARD WEAVER

The Southerner tends to look upon nature as something which is given and something which is finally ...
RICHARD WEAVER

People who give up their own land too readily need careful weighing, exactly as do those who are so ...
RICHARD WEAVER

In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your realit...
RICHARD WEAVER

Today the South is faced with fresh assaults upon its regime and its order of values. All the while ...
RICHARD WEAVER

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay
RICHARD WEAVER

The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the ...
RICHARD WEAVER

I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. I...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm ...
EARL WEAVER

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel ...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

We had a great season.
ART WEAVER

We didn't match up well with their speed. It seemed like every time they got the ball up front, they...
ART WEAVER

She is our best defensive player. Carly is very strong and aggressive and could play on a lot of boy...
ART WEAVER

We know the defense is the heart of our team. It's like any other sport. The people who are scoring ...
ART WEAVER

Holly is getting a lot of the limelight because of all those goals. But if Caitlin wasn't there, you...
ART WEAVER

She had a lot of good saves. We've always said that when the time came, she'd be there for us.
ART WEAVER

I thought we were a step off most of the game. We have enough skill players that we took care of it,...
ART WEAVER

We were a little flat. We were a little slow.
ART WEAVER

We were a step off (our pace). We had enough skill to take care of things, but the communication has...
ART WEAVER

We knew once the draw came out, if we were fortunate to get by Frankfort, there was a good chance we...
ANDY WEAVER

If teams want to junk defense them to stop those three, there are others on that team that can step ...
ANDY WEAVER

Without a question, they have the complete package. It's a big task for any team that plays them.
ANDY WEAVER

I can't really say we're really surprised. We proposed this, to look for satellites around Pluto.
HAL WEAVER

I have always been fascinated with dreams. Even as a kid, I had a book by Edgar Cayce, and even boug...
DAN WEAVER

I happen to like uncomplicated sex
SIGNOURNEY WEAVER

A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no pla...
EARL WEAVER

What we're doing is teaching kids the right way to wash their hands.
CATHY WEAVER

You should always wash your hands after school.
CATHY WEAVER

The officiating was terrible. We're the only home team that it doesn't matter if we're the home or a...
DENNIS WEAVER

I guess it's a cliche, but I can't think of anybody who didn't like him.
DENNIS WEAVER

I never met a human being in my life who didn't like this kid.
DENNIS WEAVER

He just exploded out of the starting blocks. Very good reaction time, excellent concentration and lo...
DENNIS WEAVER

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My g...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER

He didn't fall off the edge mentally, which would have been easy to do after finding out about his g...
SCOT WEAVER

I followed the fullback [Lake's Dan Tarver] and he made an excellent block. The line surge was incre...
BRAD WEAVER

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the s...
EARL WEAVER

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets...
EARL WEAVER

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to thr...
EARL WEAVER

I think my job as manager going into spring is basically going to be to work the entire Spring Train...
EARL WEAVER

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.
EARL WEAVER

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
EARL WEAVER

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
EARL WEAVER

It'll be baseball, and it'll be guys that I know. I don't think I'd ever catch up with the major lea...
EARL WEAVER

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.
EARL WEAVER

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good a...
EARL WEAVER

I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door.

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I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door.

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