Top 60 Sigourney Weaver Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Please, God, please, don’t let me be normal!”

— Sigourney Weaver

2. “Don’t depend on other people’s encouragement. It’s never enough and never when you need it.”

— Sigourney Weaver

3. “Never burn bridges. Today’s junior jerk, tomorrow’s senior partner.”

— Sigourney Weaver

4. “Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I’ve always been a late bloomer.”

— Sigourney Weaver

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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.”

— Sigourney Weaver

8. “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

9. “I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.”

— Sigourney Weaver

10. “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

11. “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

12. “If you come back from the dead, you don’t have the same value system, I think.”

— Sigourney Weaver

13. “I love the role of Ripley.”

— Sigourney Weaver

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “I don’t really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.”

— Sigourney Weaver

18. “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

19. “I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel quite sick that they have to caricature older women in such a negative way.”

— Sigourney Weaver

20. “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

21. “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

22. “It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.”

— Sigourney Weaver

23. “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

24. “I’m always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I’m the most skeptical. You know, I’m very proud of what we’ve done, and I don’t want to screw up our series.”

— Sigourney Weaver

25. “It’s rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.”

— Sigourney Weaver

26. “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

27. “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

28. “I’ve been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.”

— Sigourney Weaver

29. “I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word ‘franchise’ – it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can’t count on anything.”

— Sigourney Weaver

30. “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

31. “It’s such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.”

— Sigourney Weaver

32. “I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.”

— Sigourney Weaver

33. “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

34. “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

35. “I feel self-doubt whether I’m doing something hard or easy.”

— Sigourney Weaver

36. “I have a very commercial appetite. I don’t like to do high-brow things.”

— Sigourney Weaver

37. “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

38. “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

39. “I love playing an alien.”

— Sigourney Weaver

40. “Maybe you’re better to play a villain just straight out.”

— Sigourney Weaver

41. “People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.”

— Sigourney Weaver

42. “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

43. “I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven’t used, for any job, but particularly in acting.”

— Sigourney Weaver

44. “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

45. “I consider myself very much a team player.”

— Sigourney Weaver

46. “I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don’t have any accessories.”

— Sigourney Weaver

47. “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

48. “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

49. “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

50. “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