Top 100 Julianne Moore Quotes
#1. If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.
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#2. When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.
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#6. Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.
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#7. The idea behind makeup is to enhance whatever color or contours you have in your face. I'm a big believer in that. And don't use to much powder; powder is really aging. I've made that mistake myself.
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#9. My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me.
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#10. It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional.
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#11. We want a plan for a clean energy future ... an end to global warming ... Moms know about sustainable energy. After all, mother love is an unending supply and it keeps kids healthy.
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#12. I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling.
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#13. 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.
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#14. I can see how Americans misconstrue British reserve, and I can see how British people misconstrue American enthusiasm. I think I'm somewhere in between the two. Although I'm outgoing, I'm also very private.
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#15. Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.
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#16. I love it, to have the same crew. I'm not married. I don't have children. My 17-year-old dog died. I'm kind of on my own. So I really like having the same camera guy for four years. I love looking around and seeing the hair and makeup people who have been there from the beginning.
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#17. The kids go to a Quaker school. Their father and I believe a lot in community, social responsibility, making sure you give to people less fortunate than you.
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#18. In my opinion, you don't get to have privacy when you're only 16!
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#19. People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing.
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#20. I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story ... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.
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#21. I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.
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#22. 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.
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#23. I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.
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#24. My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.
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#25. My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister and I were moved around constantly, in and outside the U.S., living in Germany for much of our teens.
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#26. When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not ... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.
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#27. I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling is never going to kill you.
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#28. I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.
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#30. It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet ... you're exhausted.
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#31. I like the excitement you get at touching another human being when you're acting with them and then having a little spark and not knowing what is going to happen in between you.
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#32. If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.
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#33. I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to give them an experience where they feel, 'Oh, my gosh, that's me, that's my story, they know!' then you've done your job.
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#34. We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.
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#35. At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.
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#36. I have women friends who are significantly younger and older than me.
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#37. I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25.
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#38. Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit.
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#39. It's pretty boring, working by yourself. The scene happens in between the two of you, and then you don't know what it's going to be because it's a kind of combustion. So, you do take something from every actor you work with.
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#40. My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.
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#41. In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.
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#42. Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection.
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#45. I've always wanted to go where the work was or where I was wanted. The idea that it can be planned is one I let go of a long time ago.
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#46. Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.
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#47. I think the thing about relationships is that you're always thinking "Oh, it's going to go bad". But then, it's the same thing that all the silly magazines say, "Take time for yourselves. Go away."
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#48. I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement and its really shaped my life and career.
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#49. If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I'd choose furniture.
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#50. People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!
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#51. I love my kids with all my heart and the last thing I want to worry about is the air they breathe.
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#52. It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately.
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#53. I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.
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#54. Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.
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#55. Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.
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#56. I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!
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#57. In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.
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#58. Men aren't asked about age. Men aren't asked about their children. Not that these things aren't important, but I do feel like it becomes reductive when a woman's life becomes, 'Talk to me about your kids and how you feel about plastic surgery.'
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#59. My kids have always been allowed to have dessert. My husband thinks I'm too free and easy about that kind of stuff, but my kids will throw out a half-eaten ice cream cone if they've had enough, which I've never in my life been able to do.
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#60. I went with Tom Ford to a bunch of events one year, and he's so wonderful and handsome and so much fun to be with; he made me look, like, 100 percent better in every single picture.
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#61. I do like to work. I have my kids' books that I do, I have movies that I do, and I model.
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#62. You have to be in yourself, but engage with the world and see what's going on.
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#64. As an actor, there are places you can live, and when I graduated from school, it was either New York or L.A., and I liked the East Coast. That's why I ended up in New York.
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#65. 'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.
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#66. I did find it particularly difficult to do Broadway. It was not my favourite way to perform. When I do theatre, I like it to be smaller. I like the audience to be closer; I like it to be less presentational.
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#67. I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.
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#68. I think every part's a challenge, and you also never know if you're going to pull it off.
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#69. I knew from very early on that I wanted kids. I wasn't one of those women who goes, 'Well, if it happens, it happens.' I really wanted a family. Although I didn't actually have my first child until I was 37, I always felt I'd get there.
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#70. Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak.
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#71. I like that sense of family in my workplace, having the same pair of eyes to look into.
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#72. You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.
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#73. We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.
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#74. I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.
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#75. I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles.
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#76. There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.
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#77. Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.
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#78. There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do.
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#81. I love clothes - I love shopping for clothes, I love wearing clothes, I love talking about clothes - but oddly, putting on the dress and walking around in front of people, that's the place where I'm most uncomfortable.
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#82. The worst thing you could do is scare a kid or trick them. Never, ever, ever do that.
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#83. I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.
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#84. People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.
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#85. You never have sex the way people do in the movies. You don't do it on the floor, you don't do it standing up, you don't always have all your clothes off, you don't happen to have on all the sexy lingerie. You know, if anybody ever ripped my clothes, I'd kill them.
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#86. I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.
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#87. I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories.
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#88. We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.
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#89. When you have children, you don't have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling.
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#90. You'd have to spend a lot of time with me before I'd be comfortable enough to show my dark side.
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#91. I moved frequently because my dad was in the army, so I was always new in school. I think if you've ever done that, you know what it means to not matter in a room. I think it's a good experience for everyone to have, to feel like they're not noticed, because it teaches you to be empathetic.
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#92. Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.
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#94. Either you like a person or you don't like a person. I don't have to love somebody to work with them. I'm a professional person. But when you get the bonus of really liking someone and really connecting with them and really enjoying them, it's a fantastic thing.
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#95. The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.
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#96. I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important.
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#97. At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.
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#98. 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.
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#99. 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.
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