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Robin Weigert Quotes

I think when I feel fear, thats often a cue that I should do something. If I begin to feel fear, thats a strong sign, psychologically, that something has its hooks in me somewhere deep.

I think when I feel fear, thats often a cue that I should do something. If I begin to feel fear, thats a strong sign, psychologically, that something has its hooks in me somewhere deep.

Robin Weigert
Strong, Thinking, Hook
"Robin Weigert on leaving TV (and her inhibitions) behind in ‘Concussion’". Interview with Guy Lodge, uproxx.com. October 8, 2013.

Heterosexual women ask questions that are a lot to do with what I did to my body and what that was like to lose all that weight and so on. To me it just reveals that that's a preoccupation of theirs. Or gay women have been really keen on knowing how I felt about playing a gay character and have often wanted to talk about their own experiences with children. Straight men have often shown some sense of relief, that they get to experience the philanderer as a woman and not have to judge her in the same way. That's fascinating to me.

Robin Weigert
Children, Character, Gay
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

To talk about something like prostitution, the other person then becomes the wild card that will have a response, and it may not be the response you want. Sometimes I think saying it would be selfish to tell them is still being under the illusion that you have all the power. You say it would be selfish to tell them, when in fact you're scared that in telling them, it gives them the power to do what they might want to do because once they know, they become somebody who could be reactive.

Robin Weigert
Selfish, Thinking, Giving
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

We as women are always watching movies and if you want to be cool you have to identify with the man in the movie.

Robin Weigert
Men, Want, He Man
"Sundance Interview: Concussion - Directed by Stacie Passon, Produced by Rose Troche, Starring Robin Weigert". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2013.

There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.

Robin Weigert
Comfort, Roles, Certain
"Sundance Interview: Concussion - Directed by Stacie Passon, Produced by Rose Troche, Starring Robin Weigert". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2013.

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