Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.

I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.

I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

Even as a kid, classmates asked pointed personal questions about my family. I have conditioned myself to handle it with maturity.

I don't think I'd be a party girl [even if I were] in college. When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did at a party that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom. But there are certain things that I would like to do but can't. Sometimes I don't get invited to things because my friends know it's going to be a hassle to take me.

Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.

In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock.

Networks are operating from a fear base where it's all about playing the popularity game.

Sharing cabs with strangers is weird.

I don't like opening up in front of everyone.

I think the debating thing actually helped to establish to me that being popular was completely worthless. I didn't enjoy the social dynamic and immediately left after becoming number one. But it felt like I needed to do it to know what it was like. It wasn't just that I was an aggressive person, although that probably is true to an extent.

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

My twenties were painful. You had to go out to nightclubs. I love not having to pretend to enjoy those things anymore.

One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.

I've had trouble gaining access to certain people I'd really love to interview because they're worried I'll make fun of them. I'm a pretty private and self-conscious person, so I relate to that concern!

I don't want to be liked by everyone.

I really don't have an interest in it and people think I'm a freak because I'm not obsessed by 'Strictly Come Dancing' but it just doesn't appeal to me. I'm really sorry but I can't get into it. You get treated like a complete pariah if you don't like things like that!

I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems.

They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.