Rachel Weisz Quotes & Sayings

I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside. — Rachel Weisz

The Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all incredibly beautiful and there were statues of them everywhere, which is the equivalent of magazines, or whatever, today. And they were fallible, which is different from being mono-, you know, Jewish or Islam (where) you have the infallible, monotheistic God. — Rachel Weisz

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

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. — Rachel Weisz

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

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism. — Rachel Weisz

When I play a part, I never think about likability. — Rachel Weisz

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

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

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] 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. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

You have your real life and then you have your work. — Rachel Weisz

I don't know anything about science. — Rachel Weisz

And I guess, I guess it's a humanist film. It's not really a spiritual film and it's, you know, it's saying that we're all one tribe of humans and we're on this little rock, floating through the universe and (Amenabar) has these (transitional shots of) POVs where you see humans like ants. — Rachel Weisz

I love to take baths. — Rachel Weisz

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe. — Rachel Weisz

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know. — Rachel Weisz

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

Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker. — Rachel Weisz

I always do my interviews face to face. — Rachel Weisz

I'm too disorganized. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer. — Rachel Weisz

L.A. makes you feel ugly. — Rachel Weisz

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

I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

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

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both. — Rachel Weisz

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience. — Rachel Weisz

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans. — Rachel Weisz

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

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. — Rachel Weisz

I am proud of what I am. I am - a librarian. — Rachel Weisz

I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary. — Rachel Weisz

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute. — Rachel Weisz

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

The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity. — Rachel Weisz

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper. — Rachel Weisz

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

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. — Rachel Weisz

I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized. — Rachel Weisz

The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle. — Rachel Weisz

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

I'm marriable. But I'm not married. — Rachel Weisz

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

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible. — Rachel Weisz

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

Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger. — Rachel Weisz

As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul. — Rachel Weisz

You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know, the whole thing, and then the issue of women being educated in Middle Eastern - I mean, it just seems so contemporary. In terms of spirituality, it's interesting because I actually think (her character in Agora) Hypatia is very spiritual. — Rachel Weisz

I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting. — Rachel Weisz

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one. — Rachel Weisz

I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women. — Rachel Weisz

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs. — Rachel Weisz

I find Hollywood really toxic. — Rachel Weisz

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer. — Rachel Weisz

(Human) beings, in Pagan times would kind of like, listen to the stories and, they could kind of, identify - . They were, like, bigger than them and more successful than them or more beautiful, but they had these human fallibilities. Which is like celebrities now. It's like, 'oh, she's in rehab. Oh, she's unfaithful. Oh, they're divorced. Oh, she's anorexic. Oh, he's had a nose job.' You know, whatever it might be. — Rachel Weisz

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown? — Rachel Weisz

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

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

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. — Rachel Weisz

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

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

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.' — Rachel Weisz

I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. — Rachel Weisz

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

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

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. — Rachel Weisz

I go and see music all the time. — Rachel Weisz

I'm not saving lives. — Rachel Weisz

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

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it? — Rachel Weisz

Most people care what people think about them ... we all do. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about. — Rachel Weisz

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

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

I'll say anything to live. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles. — Rachel Weisz

Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God. — Rachel Weisz

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't. — Rachel Weisz

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects. — Rachel Weisz

You have to be quite stupid to act. — Rachel Weisz

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. — Rachel Weisz

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

I want to play interesting women. — Rachel Weisz