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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
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Jacki Weaver
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 25
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Sydney
NSW
Jacqueline Ruth Jacki Weaver
Jacqueline Ruth Weaver
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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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!'
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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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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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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.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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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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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.
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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.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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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.'
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I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
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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.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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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.
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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.
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I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'
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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.
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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