Jacki Weaver Quotes

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Being in a kids' show... taught me so much about who I am as an individual, and I learned a lot through the writing and different directors that came in, and I evolved as an actress and human being, and I really created a circle of friends who helped shape me who I am today.

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

'While You Were Sleeping' was actually a special opportunity for me to grow up a lot.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.

I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that stuff, I've been really able to find myself through the characters. It's served as a cheap form of emotional therapy.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was interesting to me to try and follow how other people, real or imaginary, would deal with problems, because I was trying to deal with my own problems.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

People learn the most about themselves by confronting those with whom they deeply disagree..

Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.