Latest Julianne Moore Quotes from Interviews

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• But everything that I did starting out, every job that I had, I haven't regretted any of them. They've all been informative, interesting in one way or another. With a career, I think there's this idea that you're just trying to get somewhere. It's like, "Oh, okay, let's keep going, because if I do this, I can get this, I get this, this." It wasn't that way. I did what I wanted to do when it was in front of me, and I'm trying to continue to do that.

  Julianne Moore

  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Nobody does a lot of plotting. They can't. Everybody wants to do that in life, but I think it's almost impossible. Opportunities present themselves, and you say, "Hey, is this interesting to me?" Is this something you might want to pursue? Maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't. It really does have to do with a "one foot in front of the other" kind of thing, I think.

  Julianne Moore

  Opportunity, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

• My job as an actor is to try to do what the director wants me to do. I'm going to do everything I can to incorporate that note and make it work. If it doesn't work, I'll try this kind of thing, and "How do you feel about that?" If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy. Even when I was younger, there were times when you have to find a way to make it work for both of you.

  Julianne Moore

  Trying, Kind, Want Me

  Source: film.avclub.com

• First of all, as a professional, you can run around saying "artists, schmartists" as much as you want. But I'm a professional, so if somebody hires me for something, I'm going to bring my best to it. They've hired me, I'm professional, I show up on time, I do my job. That's what we're doing. So in that sense, it's always both things.

  Julianne Moore

  Running, Artist

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I am very excited to work with people who have a strong vision of what they want. They're trying to tell a story, and they want to use me. I'm there to facilitate that. I really like that. I'm like, "Tell me where your frame is. Tell me what you want, what kind of story you want, and I will facilitate it." That's sort of my job, and it makes my work better when I'm working in that kind of a frame, and hopefully it's their work. It's incredibly collaborative, in the sense that you're working toward a common goal.

  Julianne Moore

  Strong, People, Goal

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Very rarely have I worked with a director where we've been at odds. And by the time you've actually talked to somebody and you have the job, there's something that they see in you that they want you to bring to the character. And the best director says very little to you, acting-wise. They usually just say, "Okay, here's the shot." It's their job to do all that stuff, and your job's to do the acting. So it's very rare that somebody will say, "Oh, no. I conceived this very differently".

  Julianne Moore

  Character, Acting, Okay

  Source: film.avclub.com

• You're in a movie, so you have to think about how something plays. It's not like you're thinking about how an audience is going to react. You're trying to present the story. You're trying to illuminate the lives of these people in the story. So I'm thinking about how my behavior as this character best illuminates what's going on with them in this moment in time. I always say it's sort of the director's job. People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

  Julianne Moore

  Character, Eye, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I read a lot, I always read. I like to be inside a story. When I started acting, even in high school, it sort of felt like that's as close as you can get to being inside a book, and I feel that way even with movies more so, because you've kind of created this imaginary world, and everybody is colluding to create it.

  Julianne Moore

  Book, School, Acting

  Source: wwd.com

• One of the things that I love about L'Oréal is that it's accessible and aspirational. Beauty doesn't have to be a mystery, and it can be available to everybody. But it's also about accessing what is most innately human, what we think is attractive.

  Julianne Moore

  Thinking, Mystery, Attractive

  Source: wwd.com

• George Clooney is great. He's incredibly prepared and he attracts a tremendously talented crew, which says a lot for him personally and professionally.

  Julianne Moore

  Source: wwd.com

• I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work as I am in reading a book. I want to be electrified by the films I do.

  Julianne Moore

  Book, Reading, People

  Source: wwd.com

• I think that when you're constructing entertainment; thrillers, horror movies, or anything that's gonna scare, they're all based on what our natural worries are.

  Julianne Moore

  Thinking, Worry, Scare

  Source: thesource.com

• In cinema people are always walking into something and saying this is who I am, what I want, and how I'm going to get it and we don't in life - particularly not in public situations. People might know your first name, not your last name, they don't know what you do, and you're not going to offer it up. So if you start there and you realize this is a much more normal presentation in a film then you would ordinarily have; you know that there is a big life behind what everyone presents and that I think is super interesting.

  Julianne Moore

  Thinking, Names, Who I Am

  Source: thesource.com

• I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.

  Julianne Moore

  Directors, Mercy, Producers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles in the theater I'd like to play but I don't know if I'll ever get to do it.

  Julianne Moore

  Play, People, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've always wanted to go where the work was or where I was wanted. The idea that it can be planned is one I let go of a long time ago.

  Julianne Moore

  Letting Go, Ideas, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like that sense of family in my workplace, having the same pair of eyes to look into.

  Julianne Moore

  Eye, Looks, Pairs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like the excitement you get at touching another human being when you're acting with them and then having a little spark and not knowing what is going to happen in between you.

  Julianne Moore

  Knowing, Touching, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love it, to have the same crew. I'm not married. I don't have children. My 17-year-old dog died. I'm kind of on my own. So I really like having the same camera guy for four years. I love looking around and seeing the hair and makeup people who have been there from the beginning.

  Julianne Moore

  Dog, Children, Makeup

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

  Julianne Moore

  Odds, Directors, Able

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

• 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.

  Julianne Moore

  Acting, Needs, Cry

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

• I don't consider myself very brave in any sense. I'm interested in this kind of behavior. My job is to try to make it realistic and emotionally resonant. That's the most challenging thing, to bring emotional resonance to what you do as an actor.

  Julianne Moore

  Jobs, Emotional, Brave

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

• When I started out, the most terrifying thing was when I had to be very, very emotional in front of lots of people. Now I've kind of learned that it is very important to keep talking all day, keep making jokes, and be connected with people, and be present. It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional. I learned that is sort of the way I need to be.

  Julianne Moore

  Emotional, Order, Talking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

• People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

  Julianne Moore

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

• My schedule, it always looks like it's really steady, but believe it or not, I tend to work a bunch and then take a year off.

  Julianne Moore

  Believe, Years, Looks

  Source: www.movieweb.com