Top 60 Julianne Moore Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Julianne Moore

2. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

3. “People with Alzheimer’s deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!”

— Julianne Moore

4. “Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you’re willing to negotiate.”

— Julianne Moore

5. “I always say about acting: the audience doesn’t come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you’re able to give them an experience where they feel, ‘Oh, my gosh, that’s me, that’s my story, they know!’ then you’ve done your job.”

— Julianne Moore

6. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

7. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

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

— Julianne Moore

9. “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

10. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

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

— Julianne Moore

12. “We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there’s nothing but chaos.”

— Julianne Moore

13. “I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don’t fall in love as many times as you think you’re going to. And then when you do, it’s really special; it’s really important.”

— Julianne Moore

14. “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

15. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

16. “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

17. “The audience doesn’t come to see you, they come to see themselves.”

— Julianne Moore

18. “I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!”

— Julianne Moore

19. “I’m older than I was before when I was young.”

— Julianne Moore

20. “Right before I met my husband, I always felt as if the party was happening somewhere else. And once I met him and we had our children, I was like, ‘This is where the party is.’”

— Julianne Moore

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

— Julianne Moore

22. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

23. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

24. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

25. “Either you like a person or you don’t like a person. I don’t have to love somebody to work with them. I’m a professional person. But when you get the bonus of really liking someone and really connecting with them and really enjoying them, it’s a fantastic thing.”

— Julianne Moore

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

— Julianne Moore

27. “I think the thing about relationships is that you’re always thinking “Oh, it’s going to go bad”. But then, it’s the same thing that all the silly magazines say, “Take time for yourselves. Go away.””

— Julianne Moore

28. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

29. “Older, you know, is obviously relative. You’re older if there’s somebody younger than you in the room, and you’re younger if there’s someone older in the room.”

— Julianne Moore

30. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

31. “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

32. “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

33. “Men aren’t asked about their children.”

— Julianne Moore

34. “I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement and its really shaped my life and career.”

— Julianne Moore

35. “Ever since there’s been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.”

— Julianne Moore

36. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

37. “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

38. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

39. “I wouldn’t be an actor if it weren’t for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She’s the one who told me I could be an actor. I had never met an actor, I had never seen a real play, only high school plays. I didn’t know actors were real, that it was a real job.”

— Julianne Moore

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

— Julianne Moore

41. “If you ask anybody about their life, usually the first thing they talk about is how their wife is doing, how their kids are, they don’t usually say “My job, my job, my job”. It’s really true. It’s usually about your family.”

— Julianne Moore

42. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

43. “We redheads are a minority, we tend to notice each other – you know, and notice our identity.”

— Julianne Moore

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

— Julianne Moore

45. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

46. “I’m not supposed to communicate something that’s completely unrealistic.”

— Julianne Moore

47. “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.”

— Julianne Moore

48. “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

49. “Sarah Palin’s real quality is that she is her own best creation.”

— Julianne Moore

50. “Men aren’t asked about age. Men aren’t asked about their children. Not that these things aren’t important, but I do feel like it becomes reductive when a woman’s life becomes, ‘Talk to me about your kids and how you feel about plastic surgery.’”

— Julianne Moore