I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, "I'm so sorry this happened to you. I didn't realize the people who were running the acting department at the drama school hated actors." They did. And they were fired when I graduated.

Sigourney Weaver

Categorized in : Drama Running Sorry

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

brother would-be two

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Sigourney Weaver

senior business bridges

Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.

Sigourney Weaver

dream loss heart

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

goal wish trying

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

Sigourney Weaver

encouragement people needs

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

rights animal thinking

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Sigourney Weaver

small-parts bigger care

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

Sigourney Weaver

value-systems ifs thinking

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

Sigourney Weaver

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

fire heart character

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Sigourney Weaver

guy

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

Sigourney Weaver

lure scripts care

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

Sigourney Weaver

teach roles

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

special pigs men

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

Sigourney Weaver

let-me please normal

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

Sigourney Weaver

done drama way

Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on a scale that has not occurred for tens of millions of years. So we confront an urgent choice: to move beyond fossil fuels or to risk turning the ocean into a sea of weeds.

Sigourney Weaver

weed ocean moving

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

inspirational-life over-you love-is

If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

Sigourney Weaver

energy long world

When I'm making the movie, I absolutely do. I work so hard, and out of the raw material that is the script and talks I have with the director, the writer, I create, I hope, a very specific person who wouldn't have otherwise existed. However, do I then attach and hang on to the finished product? No. The experience of the creation of the character is what feeds me, what excites me, challenges me.

Sigourney Weaver

creation challenges character