As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.
I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
I don't think my husband was ever obsessed with me, but he certainly loved me. I'm not sure if obsession is a good thing.
I don't think there are Alien conventions. But it was very interesting to read about all the SF conventions. We have a couple of scenes in Galaxy Quest where there are these people who are so passionate about these things; they show up and really believe in you. It was an education to me.
I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.
I guess I feel very possessive about New York and I'm still wheeling frankly, from what happened. I'm sure we all are.
I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.
I love playing an alien.
I love the role of Ripley.
I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.
I really enjoyed playing a character without the usual human restraints. I mean, she's an alien creation, or recreation-WHATEVER she is-and that's very freeing as an actress.
I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.
I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.
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.
I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.
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.
I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.
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.
I've always wanted to do one where we go back to the planet from which the alien originally came. But it's never been a serious discussion.
I've been blonde. I've worn it on stage quite a few times. I think blondes look much friendlier. It was time to do the blonde.
I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.
If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.
It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.
It wouldn't surprise me if some time in the next 20 years or so, you see a white-haired Ripley hobbling around out there.
It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.
Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.
My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.
My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.
Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!
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.
There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.
Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!
What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.
With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.
Weaver speaks fluent French and German.
Weaver legally changed her name after reading The Great Gatsby.
Weaver was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history .
Weaver was tall her whole life because of her height her classmates were constantly laughing at her and in order to gain their sympathy, she accepted the role of class clown.
Weaver has a brother named Trajan.
Weaver is five feet eleven and one half inches tall.
Weaver played Ellen Ripley in the movie and it’s sequel Alien and Alien II.
Weaver was the voice of Planet Express Ship in the TV series Futurama.
Weaver plays Babe Paley in the movie Infamous released in 2006.
Weaver is in a movie titled The TV Set playing the character of Lenny to be released in 2006.
Weaver was in the Guinness World Book of Records for Tallest Female Star.
In 1999, Weaver was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1987, Weaver was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Aliens.
Weaver's big screen debut was in Annie Hall. Her appearance lasted 6 seconds and she was paid $50.
Weaver has been married to Jim Simpson since 1984.
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