Jacki Weaver Quotes

I was delighted when Ashutosh Gowariker offered me the role of 'Sakina Begum.'

I was offered a role in 'Dabangg 2,' but after reading the script, I didn't feel there was much space for my character in the film.

I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.

You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.

I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.

As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.'

If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.

I did 'Rock of Ages' when it was in both L.A. and Vegas, playing the lead, Drew.

I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

One of my dreams has always been to be in a Broadway musical.

With 'Badhaai Ho,' I loved the script but was anxious that someone else might get the role.

Mystery Road' hadn't been shown in Scandinavia but I read the script and I just had to do it.

I had read Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Namesake' and thought it would make a fabulous film, as I could identify with the central character. When Mira Nair announced the film, I wanted to do the role. When it fell into my lap, I was over the moon.

Before I was cast for 'Brothers,' we all knew that Karan Johar was looking for an actress for to play a mother's role. I never thought that he would think of casting me.

I couldn't be more excited about doing 'Kinky Boots' on Broadway; it's going to be a delicious challenge!

I was incredibly jealous of friends who had bit parts in 'Home and Away.' I just hoped I'd somehow be allowed into this game.

I got a call from Shoaib Mansoor, and he asked if I'd be interested in doing the music of 'Bol.' I said, 'Why not?' and suggested we meet. When we did, to my surprise, he offered me the chance to act in the lead role. After reading the script, I was even more interested in doing it.

I had been quite judicious about the scripts I was reading, but nothing was really taking my fancy until I pulled this script out: 'Lucifer.' I have to say, within about three or four pages, I thought it was hilarious; I laughed out loud a couple of times and knew this is the one that I wanted to do.

My agent wanted me to audition for Dumbledore's character after Richard Harris died. I was asked if I would like to audition for it. But I wouldn't audition for it.

I would play the lead role in films which have scripts that suit me.

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

The director of the [Grimm] pilot called me in. I had worked on a pilot called Love Bites with him, and the producers I worked on with on Hot In Cleveland, so they knew me from comedic worlds, and they wanted someone who could be light too. Because it is pretty heavy.

There was another guy suggested. He was a tall and dark-haired and Jewy, and I said, "No, he's too close to me." It ended up being Jerry Seinfeld.