“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
“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.” KnowsKindTwoHappensActorsSceneBoringCombustion 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
“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.” KnowsNeedsHardActingCryCaught 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
“In grade school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.” KnowsWellsKidsSchoolThreeYouthGlassesAthleteGradesToo ShortAthleticGeekGrades In School 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
“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.” KnowsWantEndsKidsMotherEnergyLove IsPlansMomHealthyCleanGlobal WarmingUnendingMother LoveClean EnergySustainable Energy Author:Julianne Moore
“Apart from anything else, I got to work with Jennifer Lawrence. She’s a lovely girl. I know people often say things like that in interviews, but she really is. While she may be young, she doesn’t feel at all precocious. Instead, she’s smart and funny and terrific at connecting with people. She just blew me away.” PeopleKnowsFeelsMayYoungGirlSmartLovelyInterviewsConnectingTerrificBe YoungJenniferPrecociousSmart And FunnyLovely Girl Author:Julianne Moore
“You know, comedy's 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.” KnowsHardResponsibilityComedyEmotionalDramaTechnique Author:Julianne Moore
