Top 100 Sigourney Quotes
#1. If you think Sigourney Weaver is
sexy then you are a homosexual.
J.R. Moehringer
#2. My new favourite pastime is listening to Michael Brown read his poetry"
Sigourney Weaver
Michael Brown
#3. As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.
Lydia Sigourney
#4. In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.
Sanaa Lathan
#5. As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.
Sanaa Lathan
#6. In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.
Olivia Wilde
#7. I was always inspired by Sigourney [Weaver]. She's been able to have such beautiful diversity in her career and that's a really impressive thing.
Katee Sackhoff
#8. That whole generation that's gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to live. If something bad happened, they didn't sit at home, eat Haagen-Dazs, and watch a movie.
Sigourney Weaver
#9. The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
Lydia Sigourney
#10. I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really.
Sigourney Weaver
#11. Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.
Sigourney Weaver
#12. I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.
Sigourney Weaver
#13. My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.
Sigourney Weaver
#15. I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
Sigourney Weaver
#16. I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.
Sigourney Weaver
#17. Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.
Sigourney Weaver
#18. I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.
Sigourney Weaver
#19. It won't be long before the Facebook generation will be rejected by the non-Facebook people who will be rejected by the post-Facebook people. Everyone will be on their own planet.
Sigourney Weaver
#20. I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.
Sigourney Weaver
#21. If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.
Sigourney Weaver
#22. I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.
Sigourney Weaver
#23. There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years
the language of the soul, told through the eye.
Lydia Sigourney
#26. I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.
Sigourney Weaver
#27. I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.
Sigourney Weaver
#28. There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.
Sigourney Weaver
#29. In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.
Sigourney Weaver
#30. I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.
Sigourney Weaver
#31. Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.
Lydia Sigourney
#32. People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.
Sigourney Weaver
#33. I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.
Sigourney Weaver
#35. Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!
Sigourney Weaver
#36. An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.
Lydia Sigourney
#37. I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.
Sigourney Weaver
#38. Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
Lydia Sigourney
#39. Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.
Sigourney Weaver
#40. Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.
Sigourney Weaver
#41. Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.
Sigourney Weaver
#42. It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.
Sigourney Weaver
#43. It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.
Sigourney Weaver
#44. Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
Lydia Sigourney
#46. Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.
Sigourney Weaver
#47. With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.
Sigourney Weaver
#48. I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.
Sigourney Weaver
#49. I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.
Sigourney Weaver
#51. Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.
Lydia Sigourney
#53. Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.
Sigourney Weaver
#54. I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.
Sigourney Weaver
#55. Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.
Lydia Sigourney
#56. I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.
Sigourney Weaver
#57. I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.
Sigourney Weaver
#58. Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out.
Lydia Sigourney
#59. Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.
Sigourney Weaver
#60. Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.
Sigourney Weaver
#61. As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.
Sigourney Weaver
#64. I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.
Sigourney Weaver
#65. For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.
Sigourney Weaver
#66. I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.
Sigourney Weaver
#67. Praise to our Father-God,
High praise in solemn lay,
Alike for what His hand hath given,
And what it takes away.
Lydia Sigourney
#68. A disposition to dwell on the bright side ... is like gold to its possessor ...
Lydia Sigourney
#69. Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.
Lydia Sigourney
#70. It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.
Sigourney Weaver
#71. Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.
Lydia Sigourney
#72. When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.
Sigourney Weaver
#73. In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Lydia Sigourney
#74. When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.
Sigourney Weaver
#75. As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.
Sigourney Weaver
#76. Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.
Lydia Sigourney
#77. What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.
Sigourney Weaver
#78. Someday hopefully it won't be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we've come ... someday women writers, producers and crew members will be so commonplace, and roles and salaries for actresses will outstrip those for men, and pigs will fly.
Sigourney Weaver
#79. I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!
Sigourney Weaver
#80. I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.
Sigourney Weaver
#81. Sorry men, but I think boys are a little more oblivious in high school. Girls are just more sensitive. We're so concerned about how we look and how we're doing.
Sigourney Weaver
#82. I still am in touch with several friends from high school. I don't go to reunions much. I'm afraid that if I go back to the school, they'll suddenly go, 'You know what? We've checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.'
Sigourney Weaver
#83. There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.
Lydia Sigourney
#84. I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.
Sigourney Weaver
#85. I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so ... I love going back and forth.
Sigourney Weaver
#86. I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.
Sigourney Weaver
#87. Fear is the white lipp'd sire
Of subterfuge and treachery.
Lydia Sigourney
#89. One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.
Sigourney Weaver
#90. I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.
Sigourney Weaver
#91. Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months.
My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.
Sigourney Weaver
#92. The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.
Lydia Sigourney
#93. Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!
Lydia Sigourney
#94. As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.
Lydia Sigourney
#95. Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.
Sigourney Weaver
#96. We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
Lydia Sigourney
#97. The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.
Lydia Sigourney
#98. Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!
Sigourney Weaver
#99. I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.
Sigourney Weaver
#100. I've always been very shy and sheltered; I think it was a good way of starting to communicate with people. I was taught as a child never to talk about myself, never to talk about my emotions. Of course, now I talk about myself constantly. Now I have to take reverse est.
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