Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaveris an American actress and film producer. Following her film debut as a minor character in Annie Hall, she quickly came to prominence in 1979 with her first lead role as Ellen Ripley in Alien. She reprised the role in three sequels: Aliens, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award Best Actress; Alien 3, and Alien: Resurrection. She is also known for her starring roles in the box-office hits Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and Avatar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth8 October 1949
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.
I am a person who goes out without a purse.
I consider myself very much a team player.
I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.
I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.
I love playing an alien.
I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.
I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!
I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes, is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.
If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.
It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.
As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.
I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.
I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.