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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Carrie-Anne Moss

Children

Motherhood

" 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. "

" Tell me that I can't do something, and I'll do it. "

Carrie-Anne Moss

Something

Tell

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Carrie-Anne Moss

Tell

Girl

" 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

" 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. "

" Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go. "

" 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

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

" I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Back

Mom

" For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing. "

" 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. "

" When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like. "