Julianne Moore

“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 the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, you're on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again.”

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

“My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.”

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

“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 other stuff is like applique. Learning that was interesting to me and probably useful for becoming an actor.”

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

“Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there's serious bullying, and then there's actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can't put it all under the tent of bullying.”

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

“I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles.”

“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.”

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

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

“The one thing that kids need is consistency.”

“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.”

“Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.”

“There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do.”

“I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.”

“I think every part's a challenge, and you also never know if you're going to pull it off.”

“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.”

“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.”