A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor’s input. – Jacki Weaver
‘Promiscuous’ implies that I’m not choosy. In fact I’m very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices. – Jacki Weaver
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it’s something I’ve been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it’s because I’m intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge. – Jacki Weaver
I was sent the script for ‘Silver Linings’ when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said ‘Oh, boy am I!’ – Jacki Weaver
It wasn’t on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what’s happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I’m at the twilight of my career of like 48 years. – Jacki Weaver
A lot of actors, whatever movie you’re working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn’t have it revealed to them. I think it’s important that the audience makes up their own mind. – Jacki Weaver
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it’s something I’ve been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it’s because I’m intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. – Jacki Weaver
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you’ll have a shot, and it doesn’t work. Sometimes it’ll work better than you expected. – Jacki Weaver
The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I’ve coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America. – Jacki Weaver
They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can’t. – Jacki Weaver
No, I’m so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that’s always been around that they’re not going to throw out. – Jacki Weaver
I’ve had five weddings but if I’m really honest and if I count significant de factos… I’ve had nine husbands… which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I’m 65 it’s not so bad. – Jacki 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. – Jacki Weaver
It’s one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. – Jacki Weaver
Well, I’ve been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I’ve been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I’ve been working in the theater, I’ve probably only done about 25 movies but I’ve done more than 100 plays. – Jacki Weaver
I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles… but I’m not an obvious kind of villain. – 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
I do a lot of American plays. I’ve done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in ‘Sisters Rosensweig,’ ‘Six Degrees of Separation,’ all of that stuff. So we’re very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of ‘Born Yesterday.’ I did 700 performances of ‘They’re Playing Our Song.’ – Jacki Weaver
I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better – I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring. – Jacki Weaver
I’m a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I’m a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters. – Jacki Weaver
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!’ – Jacki Weaver
It’s funny in the U.K., where I’m not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I’m not a real actor because they’ve never seen me in ‘Home and Away’ or ‘Neighbours.’ – Jacki Weaver
