Julianne Moore quotes Socar nominee for 'Boogie Nights' (1997) Born: 12/30/1960 Country: usa

• “I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.” (Julianne Moore) [truth]
• “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) [grade/school]
• “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) [responsibility/truth/truth/top]
• “The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio” (Julianne Moore)
• “ an energetic and cutting work that calls to mind Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives and Annie Hall . ” (Julianne Moore) [mind]
• “(Comedy) is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.” (Julianne Moore) [right/music/right]
• “The Hours.” (Julianne Moore)
• “She wasn't a saint, just incredibly optimistic and positive, ... She was able to put one foot in front of the other. She had a lot to do.” (Julianne Moore)
• “They were all on the set at various times, and are wonderful people, ... I think that is her greatest tribute. She raised these incredibly loving, smart, generous, kind children, who were so excited to be there, and so glad to talk about their mother, and so happy to celebrate her memory. It's a wonderful legacy to have something like that.” (Julianne Moore) [people/think/mother/memory]
• “It spans a 10-year period from about, like, 1955 to about 1965, ... Women didn't receive the same kind of education. You weren't expected to have a job. Birth control was not legal until the early '60s.” (Julianne Moore) [women/education/control]
• “She won lots of stuff. She'd win these prizes. What she didn't want to keep, she'd sell. She won a trip to Switzerland, she'd sell it and put money toward the mortgage.” (Julianne Moore) [money]
• “She smelled so nice,” (Julianne Moore)
• “So far so good,” (Julianne Moore)
• “There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them, ... It was actually brilliant marketing.” (Julianne Moore) [time/america/advertising/america]
• “It's all on one woman who doesn't even have a job to feed and raise her 10 children. Can you believe it? Ten children,” (Julianne Moore)
• “The amazing thing is that this woman never gets really depressed, ... She feels confident. You watch her being able to handle anything.” (Julianne Moore) [thing/watch/being]
• “In a sense, there were these very bright women who were living these traditional housewife lives, who were kind of, in effect, in collusion with Madison Avenue, ... You sort of feel like Evelyn, in another life, could have been the person in New York City writing these ads.” (Julianne Moore) [women/life]
• “The kids even came to the set, ... And they brought Evelyn's grandchildren. Her best friend, who is still alive, came to the set. This is the friend who took Evelyn to buy her first pantsuit at J.C. Penney, which was a big deal.” (Julianne Moore)
• “[Further evidence of the movie's skewering of accepted wisdom can be found in the character of Kelly, the bitter, alcoholic spouse played by Harrelson. Rather than making him a simple villain, the film takes a more realistic, nuanced approach.] It was a complicated relationship, ... He was an alcoholic. This was a time when no one understood it was a disease, and it was just a problem you were supposed to deal with in your own family. I think Woody brought a tremendous amount of empathy and humanity to a really difficult part.” (Julianne Moore) [wisdom/character/film/more]
• “Well what's interesting about this is that at first glance, when you look at it you think, 'oh this is a movie about racism or about racial tension or issues or whatever, but on closer examination you realize it's about poverty, and our class system and how that affects people and how devastating it actually is and it's I think a very pertinent issue right now in America.” (Julianne Moore) [look/think/movie/class]
• “Susan Smith is psychotic. Brenda Martin has been ravaged by grief. She's self-punishing. She's loved in the community.” (Julianne Moore) [misfortune]
• “He was so enthusiastic and so, so loving and had so much determination to get my attention and that's what really struck me. How much he loved his son and how kind of far he was going to go to prove it.” (Julianne Moore) [attention]
• “Last summer we rented this little house by the beach; it was me, my husband Bart and our two kids. All I can say is that I did more laundry than I ever thought was possible. My son likes to play in his socks outside. Every five minutes I'm like, 'Those socks are filthy. Hand them over right now.' Suddenly I'd be standing there with another mound of laundry.” (Julianne Moore) [beach/more/right]
• “I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks.” (Julianne Moore) [housing]
• “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)
• Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit. (Julianne Moore)
• Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny. (Julianne Moore)
• I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks. (Julianne Moore)
• She's in a situation she tried to, that's what's complicated. She followed orders; she called off the raid. This is a dangerous situation. Somebody in DC police went ahead and started. (Julianne Moore)
• This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life. (Julianne Moore)
• Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection. (Julianne Moore)

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