Weaver: "I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy."

Weaver: "When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point of view for people who aren't there. That's what an actor does with a character. But the real life is more more interesting."

Weaver: "I consider myself very much a team player."

Weaver: "I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series."

Weaver: "I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time."

Weaver: "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."

Weaver: "I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture."

Weaver: "I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled."

Weaver: "It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time."

Weaver: "Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt."

Weaver: "It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out."

Weaver: "I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us."

Weaver: "There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think."

Weaver: "I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really."

Weaver: "I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had."

Weaver: "Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people."

Weaver: "Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!"

Weaver: "When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them."

Weaver: "If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think."