Top 100 Julianne Moore Quotes
#1. I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
Mackenzie Davis
#2. People are like, 'How does Julianne Moore look naked?' I don't know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn't look at her.
Mark Ruffalo
#3. Some of my favorite actresses are Cate Blanchett, I love her. I love Zoe Saldana, and Julianne Moore is one of my favorites. I like women who choose diverse roles and have that strength, which I think all women have but some women embrace it, present it, and live in it.
Jessica Clark
#4. At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#5. I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
Quentin Tarantino
#6. I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.
Rutina Wesley
#7. People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#8. I remember Julianne Moore talking about acting and she said, "I'm just looking for truth. When people watch, they're not looking to see me. They're looking to see themselves." That's one of my new favorite sayings
Ryan Hurst
#9. The careers that I admire and actually try to emulate are those of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. Those women, to me, make amazing choices. They're sexy, beautiful women, but that doesn't dictate their choices.
Eva Mendes
#10. When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.'
Ansel Elgort
#11. Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.
Steve Erickson
#12. I'm a wannabe redhead, definitely wannabe Julianne Moore or Jessica Chastain redhead. But I love being a brunette.
Karla Souza
#13. I have always loved Ed Norton and Ryan Gosling. Also Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett.
Taylor Dane
#14. I just went and saw 'Crazy, Stupid, Love.' Julianne Moore - I've been in love with her since 'Boogie Nights.' But also, 'The Big Lebowski.'
Kyle Chandler
#15. Definitely. Cate Blanchett or Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore - women that have no boundaries, no borders. They can do anything, They can be any character and you accept it and go with it as a viewer, and as an audience member. That's the kind of career that I'm looking for.
Jessica Biel
#16. 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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#18. When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.
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#19. 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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#20. My schedule, it always looks like it's really steady, but believe it or not, I tend to work a bunch and then take a year off.
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#21. We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.
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#22. 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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#23. I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.
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#28. I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks.
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#29. 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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#30. It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional.
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#31. I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic.
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#32. When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'
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#33. If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!
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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. Jennifer Lawrence is so talented and so lovely. She has a real ability to connect with people.
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#39. Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.
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#40. 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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#41. I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the one who told me I could be an actor. I had never met an actor, I had never seen a real play, only high school plays. I didn't know actors were real, that it was a real job.
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#42. When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it.
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#43. Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.
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#44. 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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#45. When I go to a movie and can't figure it out, I'm just thrilled.
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#46. In my opinion, you don't get to have privacy when you're only 16!
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#47. 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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#48. Like Ivan [Reitman] has said, there's a lot that a life encompasses.
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#49. This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life.
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.
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#54. 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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#55. My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.
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#56. When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.
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#57. Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.
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#58. Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. Older, you know, is obviously relative. You're older if there's somebody younger than you in the room, and you're younger if there's someone older in the room.
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#64. I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.
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#71. 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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#72. Right before I met my husband, I always felt as if the party was happening somewhere else. And once I met him and we had our children, I was like, 'This is where the party is.'
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#73. You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your career, is a partner who's going to bring everything they have to the scene.
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#74. I have women friends who are significantly younger and older than me.
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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.
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#81. 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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#82. When my son first started to take the subway, my husband and I used to follow him to make sure he was all right, and then we had to stop following him and let him do it by himself.
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#83. When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that's not interesting to me.
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#84. Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.
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#85. Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection.
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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.
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#89. She's in a situation she tried to, that's what's complicated. She followed orders; she called off the raid. This is a dangerous situation. Somebody in DC police went ahead and started.
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#90. 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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#91. I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.'
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#92. 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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#93. If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I'd choose furniture.
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#94. People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.
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#98. 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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#99. I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.
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#100. The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.
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