Julianne Moore Quotes

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic.

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

What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.

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.

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

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.

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

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

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.

You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your career, is a partner who's going to bring everything they have to the scene.

At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but its a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.

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

I'm older than I was before when I was young.

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.

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.

When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.

I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga; I enjoy the actual doing of it, so it doesn't feel like the agony of the gym felt like to me.

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.

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.

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.

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.

Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.

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.

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

Men aren't asked about their children.

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.

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, thats not interesting to me.

It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately.

Like Ivan [Reitman] has said, there's a lot that a life encompasses.

People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!

We want a plan for a clean energy future...an end to global warming...Moms know about sustainable energy. After all, mother love is an unending supply and it keeps kids healthy.

For me, the most important thing is that I feel comfortable with the actor that I'm working with and I'm able to talk to them.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.