“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.” IfsKnowsGivingFeelsDoneStoriesAbleJobsActorsActingAudienceOh My Gosh Author:Julianne Moore
“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.” IfsKnowsYearsRealPlaySchoolJobsActorsTeacherMetsHigh SchoolJuniorsReal JobsEnglish TeacherSchool PlaysJunior Year Author:Julianne Moore
“I would be lying, if I said that sometimes it is just a job that you show up for because you're getting paid, and that's important, too. But, if you can be in a state of mind where you enjoy your job, whether it's just a job, or it's actually cathartic for you, or it's something personal. I think it would be much easier to be content with doing a good job.” IfsThinkingMindSaidImportantSometimesStatesShowsWould BeJobsLyingEnjoyEasierPaidState Of MindGood JobCathartic Author:Julianne Moore
“A mid life crisis is nothing but getting to the point where you go, have I done what I wanted to do? Am I living the life that I want to live? Am I appreciating what I have? If you don't get to that point developmentally, you're not doing it correctly. The people who get to that age and haven't reassessed usually haven't faced the fact that that's where they are.” PeopleIfsWantDoneFactsAgeWantedHavensAppreciateCrisisLive LifeLife CrisisMid Life Crisis Author:Julianne Moore
“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.” IfsKnowsRoomsRelative Author:Julianne Moore
“If you ask anybody about their life, usually the first thing they talk about is how their wife is doing, how their kids are, they don't usually say "My job, my job, my job". It's really true. It's usually about your family.” IfsFirstsKidsJobsAsksWifeOur FamilyReally True Author:Julianne Moore
“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.” IfsAbleDirectorsOdds Author:Julianne Moore
“I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.” PeopleIfsThinkingCharacterCareAble Author:Julianne Moore
“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.'” IfsChildrenFeltPartyMetsHusbandHappeningsOur ChildrenMy HusbandSomewhere Else Author:Julianne Moore
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayHappensSexClothesStandingSexyRippedLingerie Author:Julianne Moore
“People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles in the theater I'd like to play but I don't know if I'll ever get to do it.” PeopleIfsKnowsPlayMy OwnRolesKnow HowTheater Author:Julianne Moore
“In cinema people are always walking into something and saying this is who I am, what I want, and how I'm going to get it and we don't in life - particularly not in public situations. People might know your first name, not your last name, they don't know what you do, and you're not going to offer it up. So if you start there and you realize this is a much more normal presentation in a film then you would ordinarily have; you know that there is a big life behind what everyone presents and that I think is super interesting.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFirstsBigsMightLastsFilmNamesRealizingInterestingBehindsSituationWalkingOffersNormalWho I AmCinemaPresentation Author:Julianne Moore
“Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.” IfsHardLinesComedyRhythm Author:Julianne Moore
“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.” IfsHappensTermFeministHumanist Author:Julianne Moore
“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.” IfsKnowsYearsWishEnjoyThrough The Years Author:Julianne Moore
“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.” IfsWantYearsMeanSaidWinningFiveHeardHusbandFive YearsMy HusbandOscarsAcademy Author:Julianne Moore
