Quotes by Julianne Moore

“Im looking for the truth. The audience doesnt come to see you, they come to see themselves.”

“In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, theres always the kid whos too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid whos not athletic. Well, I was all three.”

“You know, comedys 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.”

“The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio”

“ an energetic and cutting work that calls to mind Woody Allens Husbands and Wives and Annie Hall . ”

“(Comedy) is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, its not funny.”

“The Hours.”

“She wasnt a saint, just incredibly optimistic and positive, ... She was able to put one foot in front of the other. She had a lot to do.”

“They were all on the set at various times, and are wonderful people, ... I think that is her greatest tribute. She raised these incredibly loving, smart, generous, kind children, who were so excited to be there, and so glad to talk about their mother, and so happy to celebrate her memory. Its a wonderful legacy to have something like that.”

“It spans a 10-year period from about, like, 1955 to about 1965, ... Women didnt receive the same kind of education. You werent expected to have a job. Birth control was not legal until the early 60s.”

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

We redheads are a minority, we tend to notice each other - you know, and notice our identity

Im a very basic dresser. Im not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable.

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 wasnt particularly athletic. I didnt make the drill team. I didnt go out for sports.

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you cant hide anything, really. And its 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 - its all denial of death anyway.

You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if youre what they call a front-burner story. So you go home, you learn your lines for the next day, you get up, youre there at 7 in the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, youre on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again.

Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. Its 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.

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.

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.

If youre reading IMDB, half of its made up. You cant trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!