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" My kids have always been allowed to have dessert. My husband thinks I'm too free and easy about that kind of stuff, but my kids will throw out a half-eaten ice cream cone if they've had enough, which I've never in my life been able to do. "

Julianne Moore

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" I can see how Americans misconstrue British reserve, and I can see how British people misconstrue American enthusiasm. I think I'm somewhere in between the two. Although I'm outgoing, I'm also very private. "

" I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared. "

" I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling is never going to kill you. "

" We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art. "

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" Green screen's not my favourite thing to do. "

" I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones. "

" 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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" Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there's serious bullying, and then there's actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can't put it all under the tent of bullying. "

" In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent. "

" As an actor, there are places you can live, and when I graduated from school, it was either New York or L.A., and I liked the East Coast. That's why I ended up in New York. "

" Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you. "

" I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles. "

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

" In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it. "

" Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak. "

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" My mother was from Scotland and had very fair skin... she wouldn't allow us to go in the sun. "

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" I think every part's a challenge, and you also never know if you're going to pull it off. "

" 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. "

" We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things. "

" Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection. "

" Parenthood is a very, very intense experience. "

" When you have children, you don't have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling. "

" If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I'd choose furniture. "

" You have to be in yourself, but engage with the world and see what's going on. "

" I went with Tom Ford to a bunch of events one year, and he's so wonderful and handsome and so much fun to be with; he made me look, like, 100 percent better in every single picture. "

" With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway. "

" I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. "

" I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality. "

" 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. "