Top 70 Rachel Weisz Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I am proud of what I am. I am – a librarian.”

— Rachel Weisz

2. “You never know how things will turn out. And you can’t really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.”

— Rachel Weisz

3. “The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.”

— Rachel Weisz

4. “Eccentricity is what’s sexy in people.”

— Rachel Weisz

5. “I don’t know anything about science.”

— Rachel Weisz

6. “I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn’t care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don’t like people. It’s not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.”

— Rachel Weisz

7. “I haven’t only been offered Hasidic roles.”

— Rachel Weisz

8. “I’m slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.”

— Rachel Weisz

9. “Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?”

— Rachel Weisz

10. “I think London’s sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.”

— Rachel Weisz

11. “People still kill in the name of religion. We haven’t evolved to the point where we’re one tribe called humans.”

— Rachel Weisz

12. “If I’m just in dungarees, I don’t think I would intimidate anyone.”

— Rachel Weisz

13. “We’re on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don’t know. It’s very tragic. It’s a very tragic thing to think about.”

— Rachel Weisz

14. “I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.”

— Rachel Weisz

15. “I don’t like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it’s not because I’m afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.”

— Rachel Weisz

16. “My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children – children with dreadlocks and nose rings – and play the flute.”

— Rachel Weisz

17. “At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything.”

— Rachel Weisz

18. “I go and see music all the time.”

— Rachel Weisz

19. “I’d like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women – independent women but also very vulnerable women.”

— Rachel Weisz

20. “I think mystery is kind of great. I don’t know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner – not really – and I like that. I love watching their movies because they’re my personal movie stars. I don’t know what they eat and who their trainer is.”

— Rachel Weisz

21. “I’m not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I’m not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.”

— Rachel Weisz

22. “I’m a storyteller, I’m an actor, an entertainer.”

— Rachel Weisz

23. “The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.”

— Rachel Weisz

24. “I love the way girls in London dress; it’s so different to the American ‘blow-dry and immaculate grooming’ thing.”

— Rachel Weisz

25. “I’m pretty private about my neuroses. You’re not neurotic if you talk to yourself – everyone does – you’re only neurotic if you hear an answer.”

— Rachel Weisz

26. “I don’t judge the character at all. It’s a bit like being someone’s defense lawyer – you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.”

— Rachel Weisz

27. “It is a political thriller. It’s very action packed and it’s very exciting, but at the same time it’s a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They’re not separate, they’re completely dependent on one another.”

— Rachel Weisz

28. “That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don’t go easy on her. So it was scary.”

— Rachel Weisz

29. “I find Hollywood really toxic.”

— Rachel Weisz

30. “As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I’ve never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.”

— Rachel Weisz

31. “Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.”

— Rachel Weisz

32. “I don’t think balance is something you get from someone else; it’s something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.”

— Rachel Weisz

33. “Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it’s ok to kill another person who doesn’t believe in their God.”

— Rachel Weisz

34. “I love to take baths.”

— Rachel Weisz

35. “I’ve always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.”

— Rachel Weisz

36. “Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.”

— Rachel Weisz

37. “If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing – anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It’s so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.”

— Rachel Weisz

38. “You know, you can’t see or touch and isn’t embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points.”

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39. “Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don’t believe they behave well.”

— Rachel Weisz

40. “I didn’t think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.”

— Rachel Weisz

41. “I was offered more work after the Oscar. When I was younger, I would take whatever I was offered because it was money and work and experience. In a way, choosing is the hard part. I know that’s a luxury problem, but it’s true. I try to go where passion takes me.”

— Rachel Weisz

42. “I always do my interviews face to face.”

— Rachel Weisz

43. “As Ralph’s character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That’s the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.”

— Rachel Weisz

44. “I think that in big-budget movies there’s a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.”

— Rachel Weisz

45. “People believe in you more after you’ve won an Oscar, but it’s up to you what choices you make.”

— Rachel Weisz

46. “I like acting too much and it’s too, I’m just too busy doing that and I’m too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don’t think I’ve got the right brain. I’m too disorganized.”

— Rachel Weisz

47. “I am definitely a worrier.”

— Rachel Weisz

48. “In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that’s what gets me pretty upset.”

— Rachel Weisz

49. “I’m thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.”

— Rachel Weisz

50. “I moved to New York last year and I love it. It’s a huge change and I’ve always wanted to spend time there. It’s like a more intense London, and everything’s up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food’s better.”

— Rachel Weisz