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" 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. "

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" I did find it particularly difficult to do Broadway. It was not my favourite way to perform. When I do theatre, I like it to be smaller. I like the audience to be closer; I like it to be less presentational. "

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" My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did. "

" At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride. "

" 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. "

" Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. "

" The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me. "

" The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together. "

" People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing. "

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

" This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life. "

" I love my kids with all my heart and the last thing I want to worry about is the air they breathe. "

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

" Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise. "

" I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment. "

" It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional. "

" I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories. "

" 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. "

" As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people. "

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" Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it. "

Julianne Moore

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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. "

" My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading. "

" When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading. "

" Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out. "

" Once I've ascertained that I'm safe and I'm with a director who is taking care of me, then I'm able to go and do what I need to do and know it's not me, it's the story. "

" I moved frequently because my dad was in the army, so I was always new in school. I think if you've ever done that, you know what it means to not matter in a room. I think it's a good experience for everyone to have, to feel like they're not noticed, because it teaches you to be empathetic. "

" I have women friends who are significantly younger and older than me. "

Julianne Moore

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" In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. "

" I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home. "

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" If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies! "

" I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25. "