Top 40 Jacki Weaver Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “In Australia, I grew up watching ‘The Mickey Mouse Club,’ my son grew up watching ‘Sesame Street,’ my grandson’s growing up watching ‘Dora The Explorer.’ So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we’re born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it’s second nature.”

— Jacki Weaver

2. “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

3. “A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.”

— Jacki Weaver

4. “The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you’re acting, they’re one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!”

— Jacki Weaver

5. “I’d love to be a voice in ‘Toy Story 4.’”

— Jacki Weaver

6. “I don’t think they’re more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls – always – they didn’t have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.”

— Jacki Weaver

7. “I think we’re all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves.”

— Jacki Weaver

8. “Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don’t. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I’m just one of those people who’s always discontented.”

— Jacki Weaver

9. “Well, let’s say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who’s Japanese. I don’t know what she’s going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.”

— Jacki Weaver

10. “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

11. “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

12. “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

13. “I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.”

— Jacki Weaver

14. “I’m crazy about the Coen brothers, I’m crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.”

— Jacki Weaver

15. “I’m in fact Australian but my mother’s English so I’ve got no problem playing a domineering English woman.”

— Jacki Weaver

16. “I have no problem with my age. I’ve been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any point in lying about it.”

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17. “Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.”

— Jacki Weaver

18. “When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there’s nothing new under the sun, but there’s always a fresh way of looking at something. That’s why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.”

— Jacki Weaver

19. “Being a theater actor, I’ve done a lot of plays where I’ve seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.”

— Jacki Weaver

20. “I’ve always said about awards that they’re meaningless until you win one, and then they’re best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.”

— Jacki Weaver

21. “I don’t play many characters like myself. Oh I don’t know what I am!”

— Jacki Weaver

22. “Most Australians who’ve got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.”

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23. “I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as ‘Hollywood Jack.’”

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24. “I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.”

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25. “To be embraced by Hollywood when I’d been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I’ve been so welcomed in such a warm, generous way – it seemed crazy not to take advantage of it. I hope for another 20 years where I can still keep going.”

— Jacki Weaver

26. “It’s a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can’t generalize 300 million people, but everyone I’ve met here has been so lovely to me.”

— Jacki Weaver

27. “I haven’t really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.”

— Jacki Weaver

28. “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

29. “I love when I am not typecast. I’ve been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.”

— Jacki Weaver

30. “I think that’s why we’re always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.”

— Jacki Weaver

31. “One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.”

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32. “I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.”

— Jacki Weaver

33. “Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I’m an optimist, so I like to think we’ve progressed in some ways – in Australia, we get equal pay.”

— Jacki Weaver

34. “You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.”

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35. “Even in Australia I’d say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.”

— Jacki Weaver

36. “I’m good at not laughing. It’s not that I don’t want to. I’m too old and experienced.”

— Jacki Weaver

37. “I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents’.”

— Jacki Weaver

38. “The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.”

— Jacki Weaver

39. “My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I’ve seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.”

— Jacki Weaver

40. “I love getting presents. And awards. I’d do whatever they told me to do.”

— Jacki Weaver

41. “It’s one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.”

— Jacki Weaver