Top 184 Quotes & Sayings by Julianne Moore - Page 2

We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.

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.

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 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.

All I wanted was to be a regional-theater actor, to be in a company. I thought it would be a great life. I don't think I understood how difficult it would be.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories.

Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.

Jennifer Lawrence is so talented and so lovely. She has a real ability to connect with people.

My mother was from Scotland and had very fair skin... she wouldn't allow us to go in the sun.

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The worst thing you could do is scare a kid or trick them. Never, ever, ever do that.

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.

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.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

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.

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.

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that's not interesting to me.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

I do like to work. I have my kids' books that I do, I have movies that I do, and I model.

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.

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.

I have women friends who are significantly younger and older than me.

I love going to Scotland.

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.

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.

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.

We like drama. Even in our comedy, we like drama.

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.

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.

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

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.

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.

Green screen's not my favourite thing to do.

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.

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.

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.

You'd have to spend a lot of time with me before I'd be comfortable enough to show my dark side.

I have a very, very normal life. I really do - with the exception of being very lucky and privileged. I have two children, a dog, and a husband. We live in New York, the kids go to school, and we're fortunate that we have flexible schedules. I like that. That's what I want.

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.

I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment.

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.

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.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

The thing about 50 is that you've clearly reached a point where you have more of your life behind you than ahead of you, and that's a very different place to be in. You're thinking, 'I've done most of it.' I don't like that feeling. But it makes you evaluate your life and go, 'Am I doing what I want to do? Am I spending my time the way I want?'?

I'm older than I was before when I was young.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

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.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

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.