Carrie-Anne Moss Professions : Actress Born : August 21, 1967 Browse All Authors Top 35 quotes by Carrie-Anne Moss After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me. Carrie-Anne Moss dark-glasses sunglasses people People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. Carrie-Anne Moss inspirational school thinking I just love to play characters that are layered and that I can relate to in some way, even if they're completely different than me; that I can see a glimpse of humanity and something I'm interested in exploring. Carrie-Anne Moss humanity play character Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. Carrie-Anne Moss design-your-own design I didn't quite understand the DVD thing and why my husband was mailing it back. I couldn't quite wrap my head around it. But now that I'm deeply in, as a watcher of content, what a brilliant business model. As a consumer, it's empowering to choose what I want to watch and when I want to watch it. I have three small children, so I need that flexibility, in order to really get into a show. And being on a Netflix show, it's perfect timing. I feel so grateful. Carrie-Anne Moss grateful husband children People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that The Matrix was genre. To me it was about, for me anyway, my character, I had this rock outside my door which said "faith" or "believe" or something, and I remember felt like that was my key into her, into Trinity. It was like she was the heart of it. Carrie-Anne Moss heart character believe My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story. Carrie-Anne Moss dinner husband people I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy. Carrie-Anne Moss kissing crazy sex Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything. Carrie-Anne Moss privacy issues kids For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing. Carrie-Anne Moss bad-boy kind boys I was 30 when I did 'The Matrix.' When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way. Carrie-Anne Moss views feelings world Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so. Carrie-Anne Moss hard fuel It's an exciting time to be in television, and it's a really exciting time to be on a Netflix show. I remember when Netflix first came out, I didn't quite understand the DVD thing and why my husband was mailing it back. Carrie-Anne Moss netflix dvds husband I'm not a writer, so I don't know what that looks like, but I can only imagine that you get all those great minds in that room, of those particular writers that created the show, and it's going to be great. Carrie-Anne Moss mind looks rooms The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process. Carrie-Anne Moss smart creative rooms When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like. Carrie-Anne Moss doctors cutting thinking When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me for Trinity because she was an action writer. She said she was getting really good opportunities now. Carrie-Anne Moss action opportunity firsts I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers. Carrie-Anne Moss computer simple use I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there. Carrie-Anne Moss voice eye sound I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome. Carrie-Anne Moss female character thinking Similar Authors Beatrice Lillie actress Adepero Oduye actress Adrienne Barbeau actress Bindu actress Alexandra Breckenridge actress Bojana Novakovic actress All Authors
