Will Weaver Quotes

The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

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.

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.

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!'

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.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

I have no problem with my age. I've been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any point in lying about it.

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

I think we're all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.

I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced.

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.

Obviously, every game's big. It's lose or get yourself in a bad situation.

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity.

Neuter discourse is a false idol.

The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

The South is the region that history has happened to.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

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.

I love playing an alien.

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

Only someone who believes in marriage would be married five times.

As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.

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.

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.