Julianne Moore
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"What's beautiful about stars is that they are who we want to be, but great characters actors dare to be who we can't admit we are. Julianne reveals things about herself and women in general that most actresses don't have the desire, or the daring, to do. In a way she's both Beauty and the Beast." --director Andre Gregory quoted in The New York Times, December 4, 1994.
"I've never been cool in my life!In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always a kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. Even worse, in high school, they divided the class into A, B, C, or D, depending on how smart you were. I was stuck with the A's, so all the really cool people hated me even more." --Julianne Moore quoted in "Beyond Cool" by Jerry Stahl, in Buzz, October 1995.
Biography
Award-winning actress Julianne Moore gradually built up an increasingly impressive body of work to ultimately become acknowledged as one of the most talented actresses of her generation. Emerging from the world of daytime soaps, Moore began to attract attention for work in films like Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" (1993) and eventually blockbusters like Steven Spielberg's "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (1997). But it was her devastating turn as a maternal porn star in "Boogie Nights" (1997) that made everyone sit up and take notice. With a combination of supporting roles in off-beat comedies like "The Big Lebowski" (1998) to starring turns in such dramatic fare as "The End of the Affair" (1999) and "Magnolia" (1999), Moore found herself in ever-increasing demand. With a pair of characters exploring the despair of two separate 1950s suburban housewives in the acclaimed dramas "Far From Heaven" (2002) and "The Hours" (2002), she racked up more award nominations than most performers receive in a lifetime. Moore continued to astonish with her versatility in the dystopian thriller "Children of Men" (2006), indie darling "The Kids Are All Right" (2010), and Alzheimer's drama "Still Alice" (2014), for which she won her first Academy Award. During this time, she also appeared in the key role of President Coin in the final two films in the blockbuster "The Hunger Games" franchise. On the small screen, Moore topped herself with an uncanny, Emmy-winning portrayal of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in "Game Change" (HBO, 2012) and a recurring comic role as Jack Donaghy's old childhood sweetheart on "30 Rock" (NBC 2006-2013), showing yet again that she continually defied expectations and reinvented herself with nearly every role.
Born Dec. 3, 1960 at Fort Bragg, NC, Moore was raised by her father, Peter, a military judge and colonel in the Army, and her mother, Anne, a psychiatrist and social worker who emigrated from Dunoon, Scotland to the United States. Because of her father's position, Moore routinely moved throughout her youth, living in some 23 places across America and Germany. After graduating Frankfurt American High School in Frankfurt, Germany in 1979, Moore attended Boston University, where she earned her Bachelor's in Theater at the School of Fine Arts. In 1983, she graduated and promptly moved to New York City, where she almost immediately made her television debut on the daytime soap opera, "Edge of Night" (ABC/CBS, 1956-1984). She then landed a regular soap opera role on "As the World Turns" (CBS, 1956-2010), playing the dual characters of the good Frannie Hughes and her mysterious, British identical half-sister, Sabrina Hughes. Despite the campy melodramatics such a situation could trigger, Moore nonetheless made both characters realistic and earned a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series in 1988. In a few short years, Moore had emerged as a talented actress who was bound to grow exponentially outside the stifling confines of daytime television.
But her moment in the limelight was still a decade off, leading Moore to meticulously carve out a career that consisted of varied roles that eventually helped grabbed the attention of top filmmakers. In the meantime, she left "As the World Turns" to tackle Ophelia in a production of "Hamlet" at the famed Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, MN. She returned to television with the miniseries "I'll Take Manhattan" (CBS, 1987), playing Valerie Bertinelli's best friend. In 1990, she returned to the stage for a workshop production of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya." Eventually she landed her first feature role, albeit as a coed who becomes the hapless victim of a mummy in the forgettable "Tales From the Darkside: The Movie" (1990). Moore finally made an impact when she played the career-driven real estate agent friend of a new mom (Annabella Sciorra) who meets a horrific, glass-shattering fate in the surprise hit thriller, "The Hand the Rocks the Cradle" (1992). She then attracted notice from none other than Steven Spielberg with a mere three-minute scene as a medical colleague of Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) in "The Fugitive" (1993). She amplified her call for notice by famously delivering a confessional monologue while nude from the waist down in Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" (1993).
Following an admitted misfire with the Madonna bomb "Body of Evidence" (1993), Moore further built on her status as rising star with her luminous, poised portrayal of Yelena in "Vanya on 42nd Street" (1994), a filmed version of an Andre Gregory workshop which she followed by playing a housewife who develops allergies to everyday chemicals and fragrances in Todd Haynes' disturbing throwback to paranoia thrillers, "Safe" (1995). Moore attempted to raise her profile in more mainstream features by undertaking roles like Hugh Grant's pregnant girlfriend in "Nine Months" (1995) and an electronics expert targeted for death in "Assassins" (1995), but neither role truly made use of her wide range. She was slightly better served as the artist's mistress Dora Maar in "Surviving Picasso" (1996) and as the moody daughter of a highly dysfunctional family in the indie "The Myth of Fingerprints" (1997), directed by future husband Bart Freundlich. Audiences began to put a name to her face after she was tapped by Spielberg to play a paleontologist pursuing dinosaurs in "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (1997). But the capper for that year was a richly deserved Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Amber Waves, a drug-addicted porn star who plays mother to a ragtag film crew and becomes emotionally connected to one of her frequent co-stars, Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), in "Boogie Nights" (1998), a role that propelled the lesser-known actress into a household name overnight.
After time off for motherhood, Moore teamed with the Coen brothers for "The Big Lebowski" (1998), playing the disaffected daughter of an aging millionaire (David Huddleston), an artist who puts paint on her body, then flings herself at the canvas. She followed with a slightly more conventional role, stepping into Vera Miles' shoes as Lila Crane in Gus Van Sant's unnecessary shot-by-shot color remake of Hitchcock's 1960 classic "Psycho" (1998). Moore followed with one of her busiest years, making the first of five feature appearances as an eccentric Southerner in Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune" (1999). Segueing to period drama, she polished her flawless British accent to play a scheming woman not above blackmail in Oliver Parker's take on the Oscar Wilde play "An Ideal Husband" (1999), then offered an Oscar-nominated turn as an adulterous wife in the World War II-set drama, "The End of the Affair" (1999). Returning to contemporary times, Moore continued to display her versatility as an almost saintly mother whose child dies while in the care of her best friend in "A Map of the World" (1999). Rounding out this incredible output, she portrayed the pill-popping trophy wife of a dying television executive (Jason Robards) who comes to realize she has fallen in love with her husband in Paul Thomas Anderson's Altmanesque "Magnolia" (1999).
Despite being widely respected by both critics and audiences, she was never considered to be an A-list box office draw. Meanwhile, her career hit a bit of a rocky patch when she took over the seemingly impossible-to-fill role of FBI agent Clarice Starling, made famous in 1991 by Jodie Foster, in the long-anticipated, but ultimately failed sequel "Hannibal" (2001). Despite the film being nearly universally panned, Moore exuded her typical grace and competence in a role many top actresses were loath to take, including Foster herself. Unfortunately for Moore, her string of mediocre movie choices continued with "Evolution" (2001), a much-maligned and rather pointless science-fiction comedy that focused on a team of investigators led by a local college professor (David Duchovny) looking into a meteor carrying alien life forms that crashed in the Arizona desert. After "Evolution" went extinct at the box office, Moore co-starred opposite Kevin Spacey in the uninspiring romantic drama, "The Shipping News" (2001), playing a single mother in a small Newfoundland town who falls for a recently arrived newspaper reporter (Kevin Spacey) struggling to revitalize his life after leaving a wretched marriage. Both films failed to catch on with critics and audiences.
Despite the downturn in 2001, Moore continued to churn out a steady stream of films throughout the following year and returned to reclaim her mantle as the critics' darling. She was particularly praised in her turn as Cathy Whitaker, a suburban housewife who finds her picture-perfect life quickly dissolving in the 1950s-modeled drama "Far From Heaven" (2002), directed by Todd Haynes. As the neglected wife whose husband (Dennis Quaid) is secretly homosexual, Moore turned in a sublime performance, wearing her heartbreak behind a mask of porcelain smiles and polite gestures, while her perfectly-ordered world suddenly crashes around her. For her next film, "The Hours" (2002) - perhaps her finest work to date - Moore again played a 1950s housewife; this one yearning for escape by reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) and contemplating leaving her life behind. With three interconnected stories spanning three time periods - 1923, 1951 and contemporary times - "The Hours" told a deftly emotional tale about the struggles of three divergent woman (Moore, Kidman, Meryl Streep) from similar problems. Both triumphant performances paid off with two Academy Award nominations - Best Actress for "Far From Heaven" and Best Supporting Actress for "The Hours."
After her remarkable string of dramatic roles, Moore next tested the waters of romantic comedy again in the uninspired, little-seen "Laws of Attraction" (2004), playing opposite Pierce Brosnan. The pair played opposing divorce lawyers who, despite their adversarial courtroom relationship, wake up to discover they have gotten married after a romantic, if alcohol-soaked, evening. Her next film, the moody thriller "The Forgotten" (2004), fared better at the box office, with Moore cast as a woman who is told her son never existed, sending her on an investigation that uncovers a paranormal explanation. Moore then played another 1950s-era suburban housewife in "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio" (2005), a true-life tale of Evelyn Ryan, a mother of 12 who keeps her impoverished household afloat by entering and winning jingle contests while her bum husband (Woody Harrelson) drinks away his meager wages. Moore had two starring roles that creeped in under the radar; first in the dismal romantic comedy "Trust the Man" (2006), directed by her husband, Bart Freundlich; then in the equally unpleasant thriller "Freedomland" (2006).
Moore rebounded with a striking appearance in Alfonso Cuarón's "Children of Men" (2006), a futuristic dystopian tale about a former political activist (Clive Owen)-turned-down-and-out bureaucrat who is convinced by a former lover (Moore) to help transport a young pregnant woman (Clare-Hope Ashitey) - who carries the world's only child after all humanity has become infertile - to the fabled Human Project in order to save the future. In a rare action role, Moore starred opposite Nicolas Cage in "Next" (2007), playing an FBI counterterrorist agent trying to track down a Las Vegas magician (Cage) with the power to foresee and change the outcome of future events in order to prevent a nuclear attack. After playing a character based on Joan Baez in Todd Haynes unusual biopic about Bob Dylan, "I'm Not There" (2007), she played the underclass wife of a well-bred man (Stephane Dillane) and mother of a homosexual son (Eddie Redmayne) who tries to cure him of his so-called problem, only to meet a disastrous end in the real-life tale of the affluent, dysfunctional Baekeland family in "Savage Garden" (2008).
After co-starring opposite Keanu Reeves and Robin Wright Penn in Rebecca Miller's indie drama, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" (2009), Moore appeared in "Blindness" (2008), playing the wife of an eye doctor (Mark Ruffalo), who pretends to be blind in order enter a government detention center that houses citizens inflicted by a mysterious illness that causes loss of sight. She next earned critical kudos for her performance as the consoling friend of a gay man (Colin Firth) who struggles to deal with the death of his longtime partner (Matthew Goode) in "A Single Man" (2009). Aside from several nods from critics associations, the actress received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. She next starred in the erotic thriller, "Chloe" (2009), playing a respected doctor and wife of a music professor (Liam Neeson) who tests her husband's fidelity by tempting him with a high-class escort (Amanda Seyfried), which leads to disastrous results. Moore returned to award prominence following her performance in "The Kids Are All Right" (2010), playing the career-less lesbian partner of a successful doctor (Annette Bening) whose two children (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) try to track down their sperm donor dad (Mark Ruffalo). Directed by independent filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko, "Kids" received near universal acclaim despite its limited release.
Moore followed with a starring role opposite Steve Carell as a woman in the midst of a mid-life crisis who asks her average Joe husband (Carell) for a divorce in "Crazy, Stupid, Love" (2011), a convention-tinkering romantic-comedy co-starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Appearing in flashback, she next took on a supporting role as the long-deceased mother of a young man (Paul Dano) who is reunited with his estranged father (Robert De Niro) many years later in the biographical drama "Being Flynn" (2012). That same year, Moore floored audiences with her spot-on portrayal of former Alaskan governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in "Game Change" (HBO, 2012). Based on the political tell-all of the same name by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the high-profile cable movie focused on the selection of and consequent disillusionment with the ill-prepared Palin in the days and months leading up to John McCain's (Ed Harris) loss in the 2008 presidential election. HBO's biggest ratings success in nearly a decade, the film immediately began generating Emmy buzz for nearly all involved, particularly Moore for her Tina Fey-topping embodiment of Palin. As expected, she received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Moore next appeared in a string of indie films, including the divorce drama "What Maisie Knew" (2012), Joseph Gordon-Levitt's romantic comedy-drama "Don Jon" (2013), and Craig Zisk's "The English Teacher" (2013) before reprising Piper Laurie's role as religiously-obsessed mother Margaret White in a remake of Stephen King's "Carrie" (2013). The following year, she co-starred in the Liam Neeson action hit "Non Stop" (2014) and David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars" (2014) before garnering immense critical acclaim for her starring role as a linguistics professor dealing with early-onset dementia in the drama "Still Alice" (2014), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also joined the cast of one of the biggest Young Adult adaptations of the decade with her supporting role in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1" (2014) and its conclusion, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" (2015). Moore next co-starred opposite Ellen Page in the romantic drama "Freeheld" (2015) and appeared in a supporting role in Rebecca Miller's indie romantic comedy "Maggie;s Plan" (2016), starring Greta Gerwig.
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Life Events
1984
TV debut, playing Carmen Engler on daytime soap opera "The Edge of Night" (CBS, ABC)
1985
Played Frannie Hughes on CBS daytime serial "As the World Turns"; eventually played dual role of Frannie and her lookalike half-sister Sabrina
1987
Primetime TV debut in the CBS miniseries "I'll Take Manhattan"
1988
Cast as Ophelia in a production of "Hamlet" at the Guthrie Theatre
1989
TV-movie debut, "Money, Power, Murder" (CBS)
1990
Cast as Yelena in Gregory's workshop of "Uncle Vanya" (date approximate)
1990
Feature acting debut, "Tales From the Darkside: The Movie"
1990
Met Andre Gregory while appearing in "Ice Cream With Hot Fudge" at The Public Theater in NYC
1992
First substantial role in a feature as the real estate agent friend to Annabella Sciorra in "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"
1993
Caught the attention of Steven Spielberg with her three minute role as a doctor colleague of Harrison Ford's Dr. Richard Kimble in "The Fugitive"
1993
Worked with Al Pacino in a stage workshop production of August Strindberg's "The Father"
1993
First film for Robert Altman, "Short Cuts"; garnered notoriety for a scene performed nude from the waist down
1994
Recreated the role of Yelena for Louis Malle's "Vanya on 42nd Street," a filmed version of Gregory's workshops
1995
First leading role in a feature, "Safe"; also first pairing with director Todd Haynes
1996
Cast as Dora Maar in the Merchant-Ivory film "Surviving Picasso"
1997
Co-starred in the blockbuster sequel "The Lost World: Jurassic Park"
1997
Played Mia, the uptight daughter in a highly dysfunctional family in Bart Freundlich's "The Myth of Fingerprints"; fell in love with film's director and later married
1997
Received first Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a porn star in "Boogie Nights"
1998
Assumed role originated by Vera Miles in Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot color remake of "Psycho"
1998
Cast in the Coen brothers' "The Big Lebowski"
1999
Starred opposite Rupert Everett in the period drama "An Ideal Husband"
1999
Played the pious British wife engaging in an adulterous relationship with a writer (Ralph Fiennes) in Neil Jordon's "The End of the Affair"; earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination
1999
Reteamed with Robert Altman to play an eccentric Southerner in "Cookie's Fortune"
1999
Reunited with Paul Thomas Anderson to play the trophy wife of a dying television executive in "Magnolia"
2000
Appeared in the Neil Jordan-directed short film "Not I"
2001
Acted opposite Kevin Spacey in the film version of the award-winning novel "The Shipping News"
2001
Assumed role of FBI agent Clarice Starling in the sequel "Hannibal"
2001
Co-starred with Billy Crudup in "World Traveler," directed by Bart Freundlich; screened at Toronto Film Festival; shown at 2002 Sundance Film Festival
2002
Had featured role as a Texas housewife in one of the three stories that comprise "The Hours," based on Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer-winning novel and directed by Stephen Daldry; received SAG and Oscar nominations for her supporting role
2002
In January, began appearing in TV commercials as a spokesperson for Revlon cosmetics
2002
Reteamed with "Safe" director Todd Haynes to star in "Far From Heaven" as a 1950s suburban housewife; received Golden Globe, SAG and Oscar nominations leading role
2004
Starred as Audrey Miller, a divorce lawyer who falls for Pierce Brosnan in the romantic comedy "Laws of Attraction"
2004
Played a mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son in the thriller "The Forgotten"
2005
Portrayed a 1950s mother of ten in Jane Anderson's "The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio" based on a true story
2006
Starred in Alfonso Cuaron's futuristic tale "Children of Men," adapted from P.D. James' novel
2006
Played an actress married to would-be philanderer (David Duchovny) in husband Bart Freundlich's "Trust the Man"
2006
Broadway debut in David Hare's political drama "The Vertical Hour," directed by Sam Mendes
2007
Co-starred in Todd Haynes' biopic "I'm Not There," a film reflecting the life of musician Bob Dylan
2007
Published her first children's picture book <i>Julianne More: All About Me</i>
2008
Co-starred with Mark Ruffalo in director Fernando Meirelles' thriller "Blindness"
2008
Starred in Tom Kalin's controversial incestuous film "Savage Grace"
2009
Co-starred in "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," written and directed by Rebecca Miller
2009
Co-starred with Colin Firth in Tom Ford's directorial debut "A Single Man"; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress
2009
Nominated for the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture ("A Single Man")
2010
Co-starred with Annette Bening in "The Kids Are All Right," about two children conceived by artificial insemination who invite their birth father (Mark Ruffalo) into their home
2010
Co-starred with Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried in Atom Egoyan's erotic thriller "Chloe"
2011
Nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy ("The Kids Are All Right")
2011
Nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
2011
Played Steve Carell's wife in "Crazy, Stupid, Love"
2012
Co-starred with Robert De Niro and Paul Dano in "Being Flynn," based on Nick Flynn's book <i>Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir</i>
2012
Portrayed former Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin in HBO's "Game Change"
2013
Played a supporting role in romantic comedy-drama "Don Jon"
2014
Played college professor dealing with early onset dementia in "Still Alice"
2014
Cast as President Alma Coin in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1"
2016
Played the role of Sarah Nussbaum in TV series "Difficult People"
2016
Reprised the role of President Alma Coin in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2"
2016
Appeared as a version of herself in "Inside Amy Schumer"
2017
Appeared in Todd Haynes' dual-timeline family drama "Wonderstruck"
2017
Cast opposite Matt Damon and Oscar Isaac in George Clooney-helmed crime drama "Suburbicon"
2017
Played Poppy in spy sequel "Kingsman: The Golden Circle"
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"What's beautiful about stars is that they are who we want to be, but great characters actors dare to be who we can't admit we are. Julianne reveals things about herself and women in general that most actresses don't have the desire, or the daring, to do. In a way she's both Beauty and the Beast." --director Andre Gregory quoted in The New York Times, December 4, 1994.
"I've never been cool in my life!In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always a kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. Even worse, in high school, they divided the class into A, B, C, or D, depending on how smart you were. I was stuck with the A's, so all the really cool people hated me even more." --Julianne Moore quoted in "Beyond Cool" by Jerry Stahl, in Buzz, October 1995.
"The longer you're in this business the more you realize everyone's just regular people. 'Short Cuts' really threw me into the fray. It was a cavalcade of stars. Things got a little easier after that." --Moore quoted in GQ, May 1995.
About her role in "Safe", Moore told USA Today (June 6, 1997): "For me, the film was always about identity. All of us struggle with our personal identity and how we are defined by the world. If you're going to have a satisfying life, it's imperative to struggle with it."
"I can't think of anything where she has played herself. She likes things risky." --"The Big Lebowski" co-star Jeff Bridges quoted in USA Today, March 18, 1998.
In 1996, she read a script called "The Myth of Fingerprints", written by a 26-year-old aspiring filmmaker named Bart Freundlich; during their meeting Moore says she asked Freundlich, "'Why do you want me to do this part?' And Bart said, 'Because there's a duality to your personality that I really like. When you smile, your face completely transforms.' I was completely staggered that he knew that."--From Time Out New York (December 9-16, 1999).
"Julianne can do the hardest thing any actor can do, which is bad acting--porno acting. By the end of the shoot the entire cast was gathered around her, fascinated with just how she was doing it." --"Boogie Nights" director Paul Thomas Anderson quoted in Talk, November 1999.
On her role in Anderson's "Magnolia", Moore told Talk (November 1999): "Paul pushed me really far. I would do a take wher I thought it was okay, It was high enough emotionally. And he would say, 'Do it again. I want it higher.' If I fail I'm going to fail in a really big way, let me tell you."
"I just want to work. The notion that anyone can plan a career is a fallacy unless you're making $20 million a picture." --Moore to Richard Schickel in Time, November 29, 1999.
"What makes Michael Jordan better than Scottie Pippen? I don't know, but Julianne's a Michael Jordan--she IS the person that she's playing. It's all inside her." --director Robert Altman quoted in Time Out New York, December 9-16, 1999.
"Acting, for me, is something deeply personal. That's obvious, otherwise you wouldn't do it. I love it because it is a way to experience things in yourself and explore difficult emotional areas. I really do believe in a universal consciousness in which everybody is very much the same.
"One thing I've learned is that people are defined by their surroundings. You have to learn to fit in. It's the choices that we make, that is the thing that makes us different, and so when acting I am always trying to understand how someone else would feel in a certain situation."I think that's what really led me into acting. It has been really enriching for my own life. Luckily I don't take the role home, so if I am doing somebody who goes to very dark places, like in Magnolia when, I suppose, I was a lunatic, I don't go home all morose. Maybe a little tireder. I like to take risks but I am a person full of fearfulness. I force myself to do stuff because I'm afraid of it. I didn't learn to swim until I was 26 and didn't learn to drive until I was 27!" --Julianne Moore quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald, February 2, 2002.
"If I do a movie like Magnolia, I'm not doing it for box office; that's an art film and you're trying things. When you do a more commercial movie like Evolution and it doesn't do well, well, what the hell are you going to do about it? It's like, you made it, you had a good time, you hope it will do well for all the people involved, the studio. But it's not something you can get crazy about. Now, maybe if I cared a bit more about how much my films made, I'd be a big movie star and make more money."-Moore
On reading scripts on her own... "A long time ago somebody had read this script for me and they thought I should pass. I was like 'Whatever'. But the script had also been been delivered to my house. I picked it up and it was [by] Paddy Chayefsky. I was like, 'Okay, that's the last time I ever let somebody say no to something for me."-Moore Entertainment Weekly December 13, 2002
"The kind of roles which move me are those where people's lives are difficult, but they keep going. Nothing is guaranteed in life, not marriage, not relationships - the basic potential for disaster is always there - and yet people keep falling in love and having children and trying and trying. That to me is extraordinary."---Moore Empire April 2003
