Quotes by Julianne Moore

“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”

“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.”

“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 o...”

“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 you...”

“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 t...”

“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...”

“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 you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!”

“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.”

“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,...”

“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 ...”

“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 l...”

“I don't understand how it happened so suddenly; why the upper echelons of society have flourished while other people suffer.”