Rachel Weisz Quotes

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.

Now we're in a recession, and at war, so people want to see this chihuahua movie, The Fountain. To be told to come to terms with death, that death is the road to all - it's a very intense subject. But as with movies that are very unusual, that have come to be thought of as very interesting, one finds out at the time that they were not understood. So who knows? We'll see. A lot of people really, really loved it, and a lot of people didn't get it.

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

I just kind of muddled through in my 20s. I did whatever I got offered, to be honest, to pay the bills. I didn't really know what I was doing. There are some actors in their 20s who are very sure. I wasn't very sure what I was doing. I feel like I've only really just got going.

I want to play interesting women.

I go and see music all the time.

Seeing someone you know be good at something is really appealing. Seeing how Darren Aronofsky behaved on set, it was another aspect of him, the director. He'd never directed me at home in the kitchen before. It was just seeing a whole other aspect of someone. It was really, really exciting. I loved it.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

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.

I love to take baths.

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

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

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

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.

I love the international feeling In New Yokk. Different foods. Different people. There's everything here. Museums, theatre, there's so much to do I feel guilty about not doing too many things.

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

Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from different cultures and places. I suppose I'm a bit quieter than most of the people I play.

I don't know anything about science.

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.

He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

To come to the Oscars for the first time and be seven months pregnant is quite a thing!

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

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.

I'm too disorganized.

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.

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.

I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

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

It's hard to remember that life is a miracle. We're just living it and we forget that.

When I play a part, I never think about likability.

I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.

The most interesting characters are those you're drawn to, then repelled by, and then come to understand. All that tension - I live that. But I don't plan the tension. It's just something that should happen.

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

I always do my interviews face to face.

I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly.

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.

I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

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

L.A. makes you feel ugly.

Working with a green screen is easy. It's just like being a kid. But it's not nearly as satisfying.