Rachel Weisz Quotes
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It's just kind of getting into different parts of one's personality. Like part of me just likes to be very physical and run around do stunts and fly through the air and jump off of things and do really dangerous physical things. I love doing that and it's very fun, but another part of me I guess is more serious, so it's just getting to express different aspects of yourself.
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In England, Oxfam was very generous. They allowed me to talk to a lot of people who had been working out in the field.
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She can be infuriating. [Fernando] didn't want her to be this Mother Theresa/angel 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.”
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Gosh, being a mum... I’m a mum now! A whole new part of myself has come alive that I didn’t know was there. You don’t read a book, you just become one. It’s changed my perspective on a million things.
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I'm a storyteller. My responsibility is trying to get into the skin of someone who has that drive. I have a drive, but my drive is as a storyteller. I'm not saving lives.
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I don’t know what I think about death or the afterlife, but I do know that life is finite and short, so we have to celebrate being alive.
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Who we are in our work lives and who we are in our personal lives is quite different. I met the director and he met the actress. They’re different parts of our identities.
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By just about getting completely lost in what you’re doing so that you don’t even know what you’re doing anymore.
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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?”
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You just have to play every scene honestly and forget about a reaction and what the audience is going to think. I think the more seriously you take something, the more funny it might be.
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There are so many films I'd love to do, ... And I'd really love the chance to work with Jim Sheridan. What a big heart he has.
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It's really about some really important topics that are being debated hotly right now in the media about Africa.
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When I'm playing a character, I use the American accent. But when I go back to England, I just glide right back into Englishness immediately. Every actor uses a dialect coach. Every actor, and if they say they don't, they're lying. Everybody does, yeah. You don't want to worry about it. You have someone listening out to check that you're not straying.
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Oh God, don't make me come across as a moaner. I think it's unacceptable to moan about anything when you're lucky enough to do what I do. What I'm trying to say is I'm more settled now. The thirties have calmed me down. I know who my real friends are, I know what I want to do. In your twenties, you just do everything. It's just overload all the time. In the thirties, you learn that it's OK to go to bed early if you want.
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Great. He's intense. He gets pretty intense performances from his characters. He gets you to be very raw and exposed.
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We have very good chemistry and we're actually trying to do a love story together, so if anyone can come up with a script we'd love to do it.
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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.
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Hollywood's run by Jews. I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. And I said "Why? Jews run Hollywood." He said "Exactly." He had a theory that all the executives think acting's a job for shiksas.
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At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
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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.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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God no! I hate it, absolutely hate it. I can't stand it, it's such a drag. So I just tend to wear the same things all the time. I don't like change anyway.
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Cigarettes. I managed to give them up for a year and a half but they just lured me back, but then I managed to throw them away again this morning. And now there's no smoking in New York, no smoking in the bars. There's nowhere to smoke anymore, so maybe that'll stop me.
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Well, I mean, I have fallen deeply in love. I am love with a little boy called Henry. Yeah, I mean, I'm a working mom now, so I have joined the club of all the millions of other women on the planet who are working moms and I take my hat off to them. It's a balancing act.
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Although my mother would have liked it if I was a doctor and a movie star at the same time because mum's greedy.
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I sometimes do worry that actors are people's role models, you know. And doctors and teachers and people doing really important things just get paid nothing. And they put us on the cover of magazines. They should be our heroes. I find it all a bit dubious.
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We were in a real place, and what happened happened.
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Africa changed everybody. Not just me, but every single member of the crew was deeply affected by what we saw. We saw a level of poverty that I don't think anyone had seen before. There's a million people living in a very small space. No running water. No sanitation. No electricity and a very high level of disease. Yet these people's spirit was so powerful and warm and generous and hospitable and they welcomed us. There's a scene in the movie where the children all say, "How are you? How are you?" That's really what happened. That wasn't in the script.
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There was dirt under your nails and in your ears and up yer bum - we got into it.
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I'm not one for parties and stuff like that. I get a bit nervous around lots of people. Being invisible is what I really enjoy. That I find quite entertaining.
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I've never felt uncomfortable with my level of fame. I don't get hassled. Maybe sometimes in a minor way, but New Yorkers are much too cool for that. The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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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.”
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I don't do too well there. If you were brought up in London, where you can walk around everywhere and there are theaters, you can't really do LA. I couldn't make a life there. You're in a car all the time, and there are no seasons.
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I suppose I'm doing things that aren't traditionally feminine, whatever that means.
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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.
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Directors, on the whole, like to control things. They like to know exactly what's going to happen and how it's going to happen.
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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.”
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I thought it was funny - a librarian in an action movie. Like someone stuck in the wrong genre.
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You know what, I have faith in people. I think people want to see something new and different. They don't want to see anything that they've seen before. They don't want to have it worked out in the first 10 minutes how it will end. I think people are really smart and sophisticated.
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I had to find a dress that would glow with me — that was the main challenge.
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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.”
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I love the fact that's it’s a retrospective love story, that it's told in flashback and there are a lot of assumptions that Ralph and the audience make about my character which are then revised as the film goes on. I think it’s a beautiful narrative structure that’s very original.
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People find out I'm an actress and I see that 'whore' look flicker across their eyes.
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There's a lot of contemporary actresses I admire, but there's practically no one who's made a color movie whose career I'd want ... I don't feel very modern at all.
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I guess the first impression was that I'd been a big admirer of his work, and then I met someone who you'd never have put with that work. There was something very refreshing about that. I thought I was going to meet someone who was very intense and weird.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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Obviously I'd seen City of God and it was such an extraordinary piece of work that I very much wanted to work with Fernando.
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There's nothing I would do if I didn't act. I've only ever wanted to make films and now I am. So, right now, I'm sorry to say, I'm very satisfied. It's gross, isn't it?
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I’m not an activist or anything. Stories make me impassioned, you know, telling stories.
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I'm quite fumbly. She was actually incredibly close to home in lots of ways.
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I'm a bit superstitious about certain things, like what shoes to wear. If I wear the wrong shoes, the whole day may go wrong. Or if I don't get to the bottom of the stairs before the door closes - stupid little things like that. Then I also have all the normal ones, like don't walking under ladders and so on.
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I take that as a compliment, ... I've just done lots of different kinds of things.
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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,”
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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.”
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I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby, but that bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Henry's truly the most fascinating person I know. I have long, long dialogues with him. We commune. It's pure instinct and it's very powerful.
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I have to put my thinking cap on for the Oscar dress. The problem is I am five-and-a-half months pregnant and all the bits and bobs keep changing size and shape and that's a bit tricky for designers. It may well have to be a case of wearing whatever fits on the night.
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My performances tend to be a little bit off-centre, whatever that means.
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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.
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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. 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.
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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.”
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If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.
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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!”
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The celebrity thing... I don't want to sound as if I absolutely don't want it because that's not true. If you're in the entertainment business, you have to be honest. There's something alluring about it...
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I once made the mistake of telling someone that I always wanted to be a barrister - and I got a pitying look, flollowed by an article along lines 'the poor little tart thinks she could get a proper job, but look at the way she photographs'”
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I'd love to work with him a third, fourth or fifth time. He's the most tremendous acting partner.
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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.”
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I definitely had to go after it. Fernando wasn't too familiar with any British actresses work, so I was working here in LA and I read the script. I knew that he was directing it and I had a day off in my shooting schedule. I got on a plane - Fernando was in London and he was seeing British actresses and I was, 'Oh my God, I've got to meet him?' I managed to get to London and back in 24 hours? I had an hour with him? I think I went in there a bit like a hurricane of passion? I was the first person that he met, but then he wanted to meet everybody, so he met a bunch of people and I was back in LA dying. And so then I wrote him a very impassioned letter and then finally I got the role?”
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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.
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Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you, it feels like a miracle. Henry’s truly the most fascinating person I know.
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I found myself a sophisticated, educated American. He's not an actor. He's traveled the world. He knows where Europe is, unlike a lot of Americans. He's very cultured, but he's all man.
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It's just a great big supernatural thriller; an action movie, but it was just a really unusual role for the woman who's at the heart of it. She's definitely not the usual girl in the movie. She's really complex, and as the plot evolves her character evolves. She's not just there to run around in the action. I thought she was a fascinating character.
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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.
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Working with someone like Dustin Hoffman is a huge honor and, after you kind of get through that, you're frightened about working with a screen legend, and I was just in awe.
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Really meeting the people of Africa was the inspiration. I'd never seen poverty on that level ever in my life. It's very extreme: no sanitation, no running water . . . and a very high level of disease. And yet, there was a kind of spiritual wealth that these people had that was so overwhelming.
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I had never seen poverty like that, ... It was extreme and tragic, and I felt a wave of guilt being a wealthy white Westerner walking through those slums filming a movie.”
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It's very difficult to find really good writing for women, ... There's usually only one adjective for women in a script: 'strong' or 'sexy.' [Tessa] is a woman of many things: flawed, very real, goes too far.”
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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.”
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It's very sweet that so many people have come here.
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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.
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I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
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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.
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I'm very wary of talking about statements. I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
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She seems young and impulsive, flighty, ... Her behavior seems to fit in with that spoiled rich girl, perhaps playing at being this activist.”
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These things that you see are not sets. It's the real shantytown, the real maternity hospital, the real Africa, ... The Mummy.
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