Rachel Weisz Quotes (59 Quotes)


    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.

    Right now I'm just really excited that the movie is coming out. I'm really proud of it. I'm so deeply proud of the work and the movie and all aspects of it. There's the fact that it's a really exciting thriller. The fact that it's a very useful, very original, very unusual love story and the fact that it has a conscience,

    I'd love to work with him a third, fourth or fifth time. He's the most tremendous acting partner.


    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.


    There are a million people living there with no running water, no electricity and no sanitation. A very high level of disease, HIV, poverty. Here we have some seriously tragic material, but such spiritual wealth at the same time. In my culture, we go shopping to feel better. Some things are just a little crazy isn't it

    It did feel different -- definitely just freer than I've ever felt before. That's the way in which Fernando works low-tech, low-bureaucracy, no technical constraints.

    It's really about some really important topics that are being debated hotly right now in the media about Africa.

    I think it's fabulous that people want to be entertained but also want to have a mirror held up to the culture and be thought-provoked.

    The thing about pharmaceuticals is that they're good and they're bad. We all take them. We all need them. It makes us live longer and stops our headaches, so there are some great benefits to them, it's not just pure evil.

    I guess, coming from England ... Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman, they're your country's big stars, and in England, they're even more so. I mean, they star on the American screen. These are huge American icons. I think that what John was saying about Dust

    She seems young and impulsive, flighty, ... Her behavior seems to fit in with that spoiled rich girl, perhaps playing at being this activist.

    So it has brains and heart and soul and I'm just really proud of it. I hope that people come to see it because I think that it's really special and moving, and should it be honored in any way by the Academy would obviously be a glorious thing. But one cannot think about those things

    If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.

    These things that you see are not sets. It's the real shantytown, the real maternity hospital, the real Africa, ... The Mummy.

    She can be infuriating. Fernando didn't want her to be this Mother Theresaangel character, ... She's a flawed human being just like the rest of us. But she is someone who is willing to stand up and believe what she believes to be right and doesn't mind making enemies along the way.

    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 think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.


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

    It was a life-changing experience for every one of us who went, ... I had to make myself at home there, because Tessa felt most at home there. We shot in places like London, as well, which were closer to my experience. But the film benefits most from the fact that Fernando, because of his previous work, was plainly more at home in the slums than those alien houses of government, the fancy sets. That shows up on the screen, and it makes the film work.

    Where the kids keep coming up to us and greeting us, that wasn't in the script, ... That was just a few of us -- Fernando, an assistant and a cameraman -- walking around with a hand-held camera. That's more documentary and reportage than feature filmmaking.

    My category is best supporting actress. My job is supporting Ralph. Because of that my performance doesn't make much sense without his.

    I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

    He 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.

    I thought it was fantastic, very dramatic, very sexy.

    You make me laugh so hard that I actually pee in my knickers.

    I don't know if it's a boy or girl, but it goes completely still. There's no movement whatsoever. I think it's too much excitement.

    I take that as a compliment, ... I've just done lots of different kinds of things.

    If it's bad dialogue then I would think of nothing worse than the camera lingering on me and the person I'm talking to for fifteen minutes.

    I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

    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.

    Well, I think you and I have always felt the same way - that we're Jewish but we can get away with just being exotic. We're kind of Jews in disguise.

    It's so special to be honored by fellow actors, so thanks very much to the tribe.

    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.

    The government were very keen we should film there, ... Because most African movies go to South Africa for shooting. It's very important for developing their economy.

    I love the fact that the film is both a thriller and a love story. Ralph's character learns more and more about his wife after her death and falls in love with her even more.

    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.

    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.

    I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

    I think you can tell there's a lot of passion in that movie.

    People find out I'm an actress and I see that 'whore' look flicker across their eyes.

    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.

    These are films that are holding up a mirror to contemporary culture.

    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.

    We thought we would just feel sorry for these people, and that would have been patronizing, ... They had great material poverty but great spiritual wealth, it seemed to me.

    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.

    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.

    I'm not that person, ... I'm a storyteller. I'm an entertainer. I'm an actor. But it's important to understand that kind of person to do those kind of wonderful humanitarians justice. I really tried to get into their skin. I met people in Africa out in the field who possess that kind of dedication. I tried to absorb who they were in order to understand them and hopefully portray that kind of passion and commitment in my performance.

    Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, ... I think the lesson I learned from Tessa is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.


    More Rachel Weisz Quotations (Based on Topics)


    Movies - People - Performance Arts - Politics - Facts - Time - Custom & Convention - Work & Career - Experience - Money & Wealth - Reality - Performance - Woman - Government - America - Love - Home - Passion - Astronomy & Cosmology - View All Rachel Weisz Quotations

    Related Authors


    Marg Helgenberger - Kate Bosworth - Goldie Hawn - Emily Watson - Uma Thurman - Thora Birch - Julianne Moore - Jaime King - Bridget Fonda - Asia Argento


Page 1 of 2 1 2

Authors (by First Name)

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M
N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Other Inspiring Sections