Jacki Weaver

“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.”

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

“I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'”

“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.”

“It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.”

“They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.”

“I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?”

“A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.”

“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!”

“'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.”

“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.”

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

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

“When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.”

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

“Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.”

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

“I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.”

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