To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, genero…

- Jacki Weaver

I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little gro…

- Jacki Weaver

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

- Jacki Weaver

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: …

- Jacki Weaver

Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters …

- Jacki Weaver

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

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

- Jacki Weaver

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

- Jacki Weaver

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

- Jacki Weaver