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

Love Me Whatever Getting Awards Presents

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

Sweet Kind Charming Obvious Very Get Roles Villain Play

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. Jacki Weaver

You Consider Nine Significant Bad Husbands Weddings Count Had Sounds Five Which Really Appalling Started Honest

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays. Jacki Weaver

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

Entertain Delight Shock Theater Apart Functions

I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.' Jacki Weaver

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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. Jacki Weaver

Me You Culture People Met Everyone Has-Been Generalize Generous Know Been Very American American Culture Lovely Million Million People Here

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

Best Imagination Guess Effort Just Lively Actor

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

Better Silver Mental Mental Illness Sort Becoming Much Illness Including Things

I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud. Jacki Weaver

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

Small Feet Very Five

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

Myself Characters Like Know Am Oh Many Play

It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible. Jacki Weaver

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. Jacki Weaver

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When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her. Jacki Weaver

Cinema Wish Meet Seven Williams Out Because Greatest Off Festival Get Wanted Hollywood Her Watch

Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us. Jacqueline McKenzie

Work Everybody Back Out Unravel Messages Been Huge Trying Sending Going Just Where Process Work Out Us Why Present Start

I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card. Jacqueline McKenzie

Theatre Says She Because Green Green Card Us Card

You don't choose. I just go where the work is. Jacqueline McKenzie

Work You Go Just Where Choose

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in. Jacqueline McKenzie

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly. Jacqueline McKenzie

You Live Otherwise Lifestyle Deadly La

To be honest, I never really had watched much sci-fi. Jacqueline McKenzie

To Be Honest Never Had Sci-Fi Much Really Watched Honest

I did this film with Russell Crowe called 'The Water Diviner,' which took place just after WWI. It was fascinating because the weapons between WWI and WII were very different. I had to learn how to ride horses in a battle setting. It was important that we rode a certain way. Jai Courtney

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