Julianne Moore Quotes

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

I think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your thing, the safety things that you put up.

Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

One of the things I love about directing is I love actors, because no matter how complex they are, once you get down to working and talking to them and the toughest guy will want you to open them up and he wants to show you stuff he was afraid to show anybody before.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

Established actors will challenge you if they don't agree with the way you are taking it, and you have to argue it. But with a younger cast, they are more likely to wonder whether what they are doing is okay instead of trying to second guess the director. That helps push you.

The goal of security is common to all human beings; but some of them mistake the direction in which security lies.

We are not safe. We are safer than we were, but we are not as safe as we could be.