Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

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Carrie-Anne Moss

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 21, 1967

That first year after a child, I kind of just hunker down at home - I surrender to that side of me. I don't try to get my body back or be in the world; I go the opposite way.

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Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

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In real life, I'm the kind of person that if I use Siri, I thank her afterwards.

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There was a day when doing TV was like, oh my God, the end of your career. Now it's just like, we all want to do TV; we all want to do great TV.

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I love storytelling. I love characters that are complicated and layered, real people, that you see why they do what they do.

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Every time I hear about a new show, and I see a show that is being created that is nothing like I've ever thought about, I just get so excited about that expansion. Because I started working when 'L.A. Law' was on. It was lawyers and cops.

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I like stories about the world, where we're at. I like to explore humanity. I like to explore my own humanity.

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I've never been attracted to sci-fi per se. People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that 'The Matrix' was genre.

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I think it's great that we're living in a time when everyone is being represented on TV and film.

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Not for one second do I not, like, pinch myself that I've had a successful acting career for 24 years. I am so grateful. But it's unfortunate that we live in a society that really puts a lot of pressure on women to look a certain way and to age a certain way. I think that sucks.

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When I was younger and I was getting older, I remember thinking that if I couldn't do it gracefully, then I would have to quit. You know, looking at yourself aging onscreen, it can bring up stuff. It's one thing to be aging in a job where your looks don't matter, but as an actress, it's so much part of your image.

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You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

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You never know, especially on episodic television, you just don't know week to week what's going to happen.

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I've had moments where it's like being in the Matrix.

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It's never a surprise to me that a job that I'm doing reflects what I'm going through or what I'm thinking about.

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You try not to judge the characters you're playing.

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I'm not one of those people that needs to have all of the new gadgets or wants any of that.

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'Revolutions' was beyond my wildest dreams. I just really enjoyed it so much visually, the action and then the story and the characters, the beauty of that. The love in the film really inspired me.

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When I realised that what I do really well is play women who are tough and vulnerable, it was a moment of clarity. Many female characters either have one trait or the other, but I play both. I don't need to play characters who are like me. I can just do that with my life.

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It's extremely difficult and very challenging to be a woman in film and television. Just showing up in this business forces you to know yourself. But I learned how to deal with rejection and get tough when I was working as a model - it taught me how to put myself out there. In a way, my time modelling was a preparation for life.

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