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" I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece. "

Carrie-Anne Moss

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" I feel so lucky that I had so many opportunities. "

" For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me, that I couldn't leave them for a second. "

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Motherhood

" 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. "

" I trained for months to figure out how to ride a motorcycle. I have kind of a major fear of them. I have a major fear of going at fast speeds without any kind of protection, no helmet, an actor on the back with no helmet. I felt very afraid to do it. I love that I did it and overcame the fear and was able to do that. "

" People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. "

" I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi. "

" I grew up in a very middle-class life. I'm grateful for it - it has given me a lot of stability. "

Carrie-Anne Moss

Life

Stability

" Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything. "

" I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don't care what anybody thinks about that. "

" Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn't want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way. "

" Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom. "

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

" My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story. "

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

" Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn't last, but meditating every day does. "

" I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there. "

" Who could have imagined that a platform like - I'll use Netflix as a example - that it could be so good? "

Carrie-Anne Moss

Use

Good

" After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me. "

" I remember, when I was modelling in Japan, the agency would tell us that some guy wanted to take all the girls out to dinner, and I would be the one girl who didn't go - I didn't want to go out with a stranger. "

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