Quotes By Rachel Weisz

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

L.A. makes you feel ugly.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

I'm not saving lives.

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

I always do my interviews face to face.

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

I love to take baths.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

I want to play interesting women.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.