Jacki Weaver Quotes

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

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Reality

• Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Artist
  • Responsible

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Driving
  • Blame

• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Look

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Support
  • Ending

• We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I think music docs could turn off some people.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Life
  • Parents

• I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name, a precious Name, That can set that world on fire: Its sound is sweet, its letters flame. I know of a Name, a precious Name, 'Tis Jesus.

  

  J. Chapman
  • World
  • Heart
  • Jesus

• God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice, and a third time, God still looks for him, "so that he may be converted and live."

  

  Caesarius of Arles
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Women
  • Sexy

• I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Prove
  • Relax
  • I Can

• Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• 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
  • People
  • American
  • Culture