Julianne Moore

“היו לי ארבע, הייתי בת מזל. תמיד יצאתי עם בחור שהיה גדול ממני, כך שיצא שהלכתי מדי שנה עם בחור שסיים את התיכון באותו אביב. בשנה האחרונה, כשסיימתי את התיכון, כבר לא היו בחורים בוגרים ממני, אז לקחתי איתי את אחיה הגדול של חברה מהכיתה, שלא לומר התחננתי בפניו שיהיה בן הזוג שלי. אבל בסופו של דבר, בפעם הרביעית הבנתי טוב מדי את רעיון הנשף והשתעממתי מזה.”

“אני תמיד מספרת את הבדיחה על אנשים שאומרים שהם לא במשבר אמצע החיים. ואני שואלת אותם, כמה שנים אתם חושבים שאתם תחיו? דבר טוב נוסף בהזדקנות הוא ההבנה שלא מגיעים לשיא... כשאתה צעיר אתה מרגיש שאתה צריך להספיק לעשות המון דברים, וכשאתה מגיע לגילי, אתה מבין שאתה צריך ליהנות מהמקום שאתה נמצא בו. הכול צריך להיות קשור ליהנות מהרגע. ליהנות מהעבודה ומהמשפחה.”

“All I wanted was to be a regional-theater actor, to be in a company. I thought it would be a great life. I don't think I understood how difficult it would be.”

“You'd have to spend a lot of time with me before I'd be comfortable enough to show my dark side.”

“In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.”

“Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.”

“This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life.”

“I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.”

“My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.”

“The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.”

“I do like to work. I have my kids' books that I do, I have movies that I do, and I model.”

“As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.”

“It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet... you're exhausted.”

“I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling.”

“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 youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.”

“I love going to Scotland.”

“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.”

“Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak.”

“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.”

“She's in a situation she tried to, that's what's complicated. She followed orders; she called off the raid. This is a dangerous situation. Somebody in DC police went ahead and started.”