Elisabeth Moss Quotes

Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and made by women because that's what's in our world.

Elisabeth Moss

Art, World, Diverse

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Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.

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Honesty, Real, Views

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If I'm not like my characters, I think just it's like a musician liking to play certain pieces of music rather than others. I just have more satisfaction when playing complicated things rather than some of your more straightforward, simple moments. . . . I like to be challenged.

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Character, Simple, Thinking

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There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

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Character, Vanity, Different

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn't think that I was that young. It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible. At the same time, it turned out for the best. I'm glad that I'm not there. I'm glad that it didn't happen when I was 50. I'm glad I didn't have kids. And I got that out of the way. Hopefully. Like, that's probably not going to happen again.

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Kids, Thinking, Candid

"The Very Bright Future of Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss" by Willa Paskin, www.vulture.com. March 9, 2014.

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I feel like women still deal with dressing appropriately for the office. It's by choice - you don't want to sexualize yourself too much. You want to be respected. You want to be taken seriously, and there's certain things in our culture, if you do, if you wear, you won't be taken seriously.

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Taken, Office, Choices

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Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my part. It's only recently that that's been pointed out by the media . . . or pointed out by fans. I also find complicated, flawed characters interesting. What's the opposite? To play one-dimensional, boring failures?

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Character, Interesting, Feminist

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I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.

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Thinking, Long, Inspire

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll have rehearsal and talk about it, and you'll have plenty of time with the script. So, for me, I really do feel like an audition is a sketch of what you might do.

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Auditions, Rehearsal, Might

"Elisabeth Moss Talks Jane Campion’s Miniseries TOP OF THE LAKE, Filming in New Zealand, Working with Holly Hunter, the Dark Nature of the Story, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 18, 2013.

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I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

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Thinking, Influence, Film

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Twitter scares me. I think it's so amazing, like the internet in general, because of the connection that it gives people. But the concept that one 140-word post can change someone's life . . . that scares me. You can literally ruin someone's life with one tweet. So I only do Instagram. I love photography . . . and interacting with the fans. I do love hearing from them. I try to answer questions if I can.

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Photography, Thinking, People

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I love baseball games. I got to go to World Series last year. I watch almost every Cubs game. If I can't watch, I get the updates on my phone. I don't like to go to parties that much. I don't like a lot of people around me, but not in like a weird anxiety way. I just don't like to have to talk to a lot of people.

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Baseball, Party, People

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At 15, you have to decide if you're going to go into professional dancing and really pursue it. I just a) knew that I couldn't stop acting, and b) I had that sort of foresight to understand that when I was 35 - if I was lucky and if I hadn't gotten injured - my career would be on its way to ending. Now, at 34, I really understand that. But at 15, I understood that as well. I was like, "I can't. That's just too risky.".

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Dancing, Acting, Lucky

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I'm a champion napper. For the past decade, I've taken a nap at lunch on set. I have a noise machine app on my phone, headphones - and that's key. That's probably the most important thing. If I can get an eye mask on, that's great. And that's it. After a half an hour, I'm like a new person. It's just in that first half an hour, don't talk to me.

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Taken, Eye, Past

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To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

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Girl, Tv Shows, Wings

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I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

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Daughter, Mother, Stars

Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize it's just gone.

Elisabeth Moss

Thinking, Mad Men, One Day

"Mad Men: Meditations in an Emergency". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.

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Successful, Men, Thinking

Interview with John Scott Lewinski, uk.askmen.com.

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I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.

Elisabeth Moss

Writing, Character, Men

Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 21, 2010.

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I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.

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Boys, Thinking, Inspire

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She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.

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Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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Born: July 24, 1982
Occupation: TV Actor
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