Julianne Moore Biography

On herself:

“My parents were very liberal. I’m a proud army brat.”

“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.”

“I was a goody-goody. I was one of those kids who played by the rules.”

On acting/her career:

“I’m looking for the truth. The audience doesn’t come to see you, they come to see themselves.”

“That’s the beauty of what actors do, that you only have yourself as a resource. And so the trick is to find something in them that you connect to somewhere. And with every single one of my characters, I have to find something that I really understand and ultimately believe.”

“When you’re acting, you’ve literally become a different person in your head.”

“(On losing the 2000 Best Actress Award) “Only five people got nominated in that category, and that’s not many people. So I did all right."

“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 anyone ever ripped my clothes, I’d kill them.”

On comedy:

“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.”

“Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it’s not funny."