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 Read Quote
I’ve done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic ‘r’ – where you say the ‘r’ – where most New Yorkers don’t. Jacki Weaver Read Quote
I’m in fact Australian but my mother’s English so I’ve got no problem playing a domineering English woman. Jacki Weaver Read Quote
A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor’s input. Jacki Weaver Read Quote
A lot of actors, whatever movie you’re working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn’t have it revealed to them. I think it’s important that the audience makes up their own mind. Jacki Weaver Read Quote
I’m a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I’m a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters. Jacki Weaver Read Quote
It’s one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. Jacki Weaver Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In Australia, I grew up watching ‘The Mickey Mouse Club,’ my son grew up watching ‘Sesame Street,’ my grandson’s growing up watching ‘Dora The Explorer.’ So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we’re born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it’s second nature. Jacki Weaver Read Quote
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. Jacki Weaver Read Quote
