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| • | "I smoke, which I suppose keeps my weight down", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 30, '94 |
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| • | "'There are two kinds of women in this world. Women who get a cigarette and wait for someone to light it. I call them 'Light-me Women''. She demonstrates by wedging an unlit fag between two fingers and waving it around. 'Me? I light my own.'", Sky Magazine (UK), Oct. '96 |
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| • | "'I don't think Conrad likes Amy', Weisz says decisively, as cigarette smoke curls around her hazel eyes, distinctive nose and mouth.", Los Angeles Times, Jan. 22, '98 |
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| • | smokes 20/day, The Sunday Times (UK), Aug. 23, '98 |
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| • | "Ensconsing herself in her local cafe, she immediately lights up one of the many cigarettes she will have smoked by the end of the interview... `In films you turn up, do it, and in between you just wait around, eat bagels, smoke fags`", Times of London (UK), Apr. 3, '99 |
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| • | "A waiter drifts by to offer Rachel another cigarette", Bikini Magazine, May '99 |
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| • | "'I ride horses but this was something else and my ass still has the rub marks. I became hysterical and I used to laugh so much I could not stop- like you do when you're really nervous', she says, lighting another considered cigarette", The Scotsman (UK), Jun. 5, '99 |
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| • | "Beside the glass is a packet of cigarettes which she claims she is on the verge of giving up because she is finally disgusted by the smoking habit", Courier Mail (UK), Dec. 30, '00 |
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| • | "'So I can smoke, then?' The actress flags a waitress, hoping to confirm that she's actually sitting in the tobacco-friendly section. She's an avid smoker, but the last thing this 29-year-old wants is to cause a fuss... Granted permission, Weisz yanks out a box of Marlboro Lights and starts smoking", Details Magazine, Dec. '00, p. 138 |
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| • | "She draws on her cigarette and pauses for the longest time", The Guardian (G2 supplement) (UK), Jan. 9, '01 |
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| • | "draws on her cigarette and pauses for the longest time", Irish Times, Jan. 13, '01 |
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| • | "she's very sorry and anyway would I mind very much if we moved to the back so that she can smoke? I don't mind", Sunday Herald (UK), Apr. 8, '01 |
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| • | "Her parents ... split took a toll on Rachel. She smoked, cut classes, ran away from home", People Magazine, May 21, '01 |
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| • | "A final cigarette, a cup of Earl Grey tea", The Independent (UK), May 26, '01 |
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| • | "You might say that, along with cigarettes, challenging roles, Led Zeppelin and Elvis Presley, talented men are Weisz's vice.", InStyle Magazine (UK), May '02 |
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| • | quit - "she gave up smoking on 1 July 2001. 'It's one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life', she says. 'I think the older you get the worse you look smoking. Just on a completely superficial level. Forget the fact that you're rotting your lungs. Just aesthetically. You know how people think fags look glamourous because we've watched all those old black and white movies? Well, I think the older you get, the less it works'", GQ, Jul. '02 |
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| • | quit - "Quitting smoking was some forward thinking on Weisz's part, considering that her next great challenge requires her to leave home for the first time and lay roots in the land of $8 Marlboros", New York Magazine, Aug. 25, '02
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| • | quit - "[she had] a filthy nicotine habit. 'I gave up July 1 last year', she says. 'It was the single hardest thing I have ever done. I did it with a combination of yoga and sheer will ... a lot of will'", New York Magazine, Fall '02 |
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| • | "There wasn't a flake of fresh snow on the ground, but that didn't stop some of those in town for the Sundance Film Festival from hitting the slopes. Rachel Weisz spent two hours snowboarding before heading down the mountain to attend the premiere of 'Confidence'. 'I like Sundance', she said between puffs on a cig. 'It so bohemian'", Women's Wear Daily, Jan. 23, '03 |
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| • | "I hate shopping. It's such a drag and I can't even smoke in New York. I managed to give cigarettes up for a year, but they just lured me back. Then I managed to throw them away again this morning and now there's no smoking in New York, not even in the bars, maybe that'll stop me", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 12, '03 |
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| • | "Jon Stewart: Have you been to a bar yet in New York where you can't smoke? Rachel Weisz: I haven't yet, no. JS: do you smoke for real? RW: I'm an ex-smoker who just started smoking again. I slipped back off that wagon. I don't know what happened. I gave up for 2 years. JS: How much are you smoking now? A lot? RW: No, not a lot, like 2 or 3 a day. JS: So you don't smoke. That's not smoking. RW: But it is, after you smoke for a long time, any, anything. JS: Didn't you feel better after you quit? RW: [sighs] I don't know. No. I felt better. I didn't feel like I was an drug addict, that was a good feeling, to be free. But I didn't feel like after I quit that I could suddenly run farther than I could before", The Daily Show, Apr. 22, '03
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| • | "[quit for 2 years, recently started again, up to 2 to 3 cigs a day] I'm an ex-smoker who recently started again. I fell right off that wagon.", Daily Show, Apr. 24, '03 |
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| • | "What are your vices? 'Cigarettes. I managed to give them up for a year and a half but they just lured me back, but then I managed to throw them away again this morning. And now there's no smoking in New York, no smoking in the bars. There's nowhere to smoke anymore, so maybe that'll stop me'", Internet Movie Database, May '03
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| • | "Variety had spotted Gretchen Mol and Rachel Weisz and Graydon Carter puffing away at soirees for their pics", Variety, May 26-Jun. 1, '03, p. 66 |
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| • | quit - "she even claims to have swapped smoking for yoga", The Mirror (UK), Oct. 9, '03 |
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| • | quit - "Actress Rachel Weisz on how a major birthday, fear of the big 'C' and a bag of lollipops helped her kick a nasty habit. Few women who smoke are eager to discuss their addiction with their nonsmoking parents, much less make a pact with their mom and dad to give up cigs when they turn 30. But that's exactly what Rachel Weisz, 32, did. 'I don't know why 30 became the magic number,' says Weisz (pronounced 'vice'), who is now starring opposite Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman in Runaway Jury. 'I was motivated by health reasons. I certainly didn't want to get cancer. But vanity also came into play. I was concerned that smoking would cause me to age more quickly,' she says. The threat of cancer was very real. Weisz's mother is a breast cancer survivor. Her aunt, meanwhile, is a medical researcher who is studying the link between alcoholism and breast cancer, and her father is a medical inventor. But even though she was aware of the health risks, quitting was tough for the British actress, who began smoking at 12 and 'got really hooked' in her 20s. It wasn't until Weisz attended Cambridge University in England that she became clean about her nicotine addiction to her mom, Edith, a psychoanalyst, and dad, George. 'They were mortified because they're vehement antismokers,' she recalls. Weisz has spent much of her adult life making movies. She had already quit cold turkey one other time before reaching 30, but says movie sets (which are scarcely smoke-free work environments) make it difficult to stay off the sticks. 'It's a hard place not to smoke. There's so much waiting around and fucking anxiety,' she says. After a particularly unheathly shoot for Beautiful Creatures, during which Weisz smoked roughly two packs a day, she and her costar, Susan Lynch, decided it was time to make a change. Together they found a retreat in southern Spain, where they checked their lighters at the door and did four hours of yoga a day (two in the morning, two in the evening) for a week. 'I think it helped to quit with a friend. We had a real support system,' Weisz says. Weisz was able to kick one bad habit in part adopting another. 'I brought 200 lollipops to the retreat because I was used to having something in my mouth,' She recalls. Weisz put on a few pounds when she first quit but says she was less concerned about weight gain that the health threats posed by smoking. And she's since learned to accept herself as is: 'I have a woman's body. Not a boy's. Most women do. You should feel proud of your ass, breasts, and bellies.' Staying away from cigarettes is an ongoing challenge for Weisz. But thanks to Hollywood magic, she can at least remain nicotine-free on the set. While she was filming her chain-smoking role in this year's Confidence, the crew gave her cigarettes made from marshmallow leaves. Weisz, who moved to New York City about a year ago, has on occasion given into her smoking whims. 'I've had relapses. I have to be honest,' she says. 'Sometimes, I'll have one after dinner.' She runs 3 miles a few times a week and says she has become a better jogger after quitting smoking. 'I can run farther now, without wheezing when I go uphill,' she observes. And even as she battles cravings, Weisz remains surprisingly tolerant of others who light up around her. 'I have empathy for addicts,' she says, with an attitude that suggests she's made the crucial mental jump from smoker to non-smoker", Self Magazine, Nov. '03 |
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| • | "'I know, I know,' Rachel Weisz says, 'I breeze in. Ripped jeans, glowing skin, raven mane. The whole bit. Marlboro Lights sticking out of my bag' . ... For what's fit to print if everything about the raven-maned, Marlboro-smoking, er, alabaster-skinned actress has been printed somewhere already?", Esquire (UK), Dec. '03 |
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| • | "Rachel's father George said, 'She wanted to be expelled. She was always smoking and bunking off school so they would throw her out. She was looking for trouble'", The Mirror (UK), Feb. 4, '06
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| • | quit - "Question: Did you ever smoke? Weisz: I used to smoke. I had given that up.", Latino Review, Nov. 20, '06
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| • | "she orders a bottle of water ... once it was wine and fags, now it's only water", Harpers Bazaar (UK), Aug. '09
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| • | "I don't know why I started again. It's film sets... I mean, everyone smokes on a film set.", AP, Nov. 25, '11
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| • | quit - "Says that smoking is her bad habit, but she quit again in late 2003! Congratulations!", www.rachel-weisz.net, when?
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| • | "would I mind very much if we moved to the back so that she can smoke", ES Magazine, when? |
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| • | "says she substituted cigarette smoking for yoga this year", where?, when?
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Deep Blue Sea, The (2011) (smoking review)