Rachel Weisz Quotes

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

You can't have life without the genetic code.

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

NASA should start thinking about this planet.