D.J. Weaver Quotes

The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one’s view of the nature and destiny of man.

The hero can never be a relativist.

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

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.

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room."

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

If $85 million is not enough to take care of my family and other generations of my family, then you’re stupid.

Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

Ideas have consequences.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

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

If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

I love the role of Ripley.

People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.

With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

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.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.