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" My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me. "
Julianne Moore
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" My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too. "
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" We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it. "
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" The idea behind makeup is to enhance whatever color or contours you have in your face. I'm a big believer in that. And don't use to much powder; powder is really aging. I've made that mistake myself. "
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" Parenthood is a very, very intense experience. "
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" There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do. "
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" In my opinion, you don't get to have privacy when you're only 16! "
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" I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community. "
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" I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality. "
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" I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. "
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" I do like to work. I have my kids' books that I do, I have movies that I do, and I model. "
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" People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film. "
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" Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me. "
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" It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional. "
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" When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too. "
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" Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. It's like accents, dialect - it varies from one area to another. But there are universal truths about what it means to be a human being. All the other stuff is like applique. Learning that was interesting to me and probably useful for becoming an actor. "
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" I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.' "
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" If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I'd choose furniture. "
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" I have a very, very normal life. I really do - with the exception of being very lucky and privileged. I have two children, a dog, and a husband. We live in New York, the kids go to school, and we're fortunate that we have flexible schedules. I like that. That's what I want. "
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" 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. "
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" Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore. "
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" When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it. "
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