Julianne Moore
26 quotes
Biography
"Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to."
"In the early Eighties people thought feminism was over, but now, my God, we’re dealing with third-wave feminism, which is extraordinary."
"My mother always told me that for a person to be happy they need love and work."
"When I see people do extraordinary things and I think: How did they do that?"
"Sometimes when things are mysterious to us– the thing that we do, you just do one, two, three and it’s done. But something that is outside of your abilities or your world and it’s mysterious, it’s amazing."
"You have to remember children are not usually very interested in what their parents do for a living."
"I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political, because you're part of a community."
"It's difficult in an economy like ours to call yourself a socialist, because we're living in a capitalist society where we all benefit from that. But in terms of where we are going politically, a lot of people would like to see a more equitable distribution."
"I don't understand how it happened so suddenly; why the upper echelons of society have flourished while other people suffer."
"No, you're only brave in the face of something you're afraid of, and I'm not afraid of stories, of emotion, of people. So I don't feel it's risky. I feel it's an exploration of something human."
"I do think the one thing ageing allows you is to go, 'Well, I know what I like, I know what I don't like.'"
"It takes a long time to figure out what you care about."
"All I really care about is staying alive for as long as possible for my children, because I don't want them to have to experience loss."
"The older I get, the more I want to be authentically myself."
"A feeling is something that’s really important to have! Real life is not always easy. You cannot always look at the good stuff. But just because something is not positive, it’s not like it’s going to kill you. You don’t have to say, “No, no, no.”"
"We redheads are a minority, we tend to notice each other - you know, and notice our identity"
"I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports."
"Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. It's like accents, dialect - it varies from one area to another. But there are universal truths about what it means to be a human being. All the other stuff is like applique. Learning that was interesting to me and probably useful for becoming an actor."
"The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me."
"Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in."
"I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable."
"With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway."
"You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you go home, you learn your lines for the next day, you get up, you're there at 7 in the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, you're on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again."
"My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort."
"If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!"