I grew up in a very middle-class life. I’m grateful for it – it has given me a lot of stability.
Carrie-Anne Moss
It’s extremely difficult and very challenging to be a woman in film and television. Just showing up in this business forces you to know yourself. But I learned how to deal with rejection and get tough when I was working as a model – it taught me how to put myself out there. In a way, my time modelling was a preparation for life.
Carrie-Anne Moss
For me, the biggest thing is someone who’s kind. I’m not into the bad-boy thing.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.
Carrie-Anne Moss
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
After ‘The Matrix,’ I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I’m a very simple person. I don’t use computers.
Carrie-Anne Moss
For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me, that I couldn’t leave them for a second.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally – and being an actor you have that freedom.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn’t last, but meditating every day does.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn’t want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I trained for months to figure out how to ride a motorcycle. I have kind of a major fear of them. I have a major fear of going at fast speeds without any kind of protection, no helmet, an actor on the back with no helmet. I felt very afraid to do it. I love that I did it and overcame the fear and was able to do that.
Carrie-Anne Moss
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
I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don’t care what anybody thinks about that.
Carrie-Anne Moss
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
I remember, when I was modelling in Japan, the agency would tell us that some guy wanted to take all the girls out to dinner, and I would be the one girl who didn’t go – I didn’t want to go out with a stranger.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Who could have imagined that a platform like – I’ll use Netflix as a example – that it could be so good?
Carrie-Anne Moss
Tell me that I can’t do something, and I’ll do it.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I’ve never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.
Carrie-Anne Moss
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
I don’t believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.
Carrie-Anne Moss
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
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
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
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
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
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
As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you’re one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn’t do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I don’t have any huge desire to show you all that I’m not tough and strong, that I’m all feminine and soft. That’s not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.
Carrie-Anne Moss
With scripts I’ve always looked at them and thought about kids, you know? Thought about the world and the impact… I won’t do nudity and I never felt comfortable with that whole idea or things with huge sexual content – not my thing.
Carrie-Anne Moss
To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.
Carrie-Anne Moss
When I was a kid, I didn’t know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Technology is just so fast. As convenient as it is, it’s stressing a lot of us out. It’s just too much, too quick. And I’m interested in that conversation.
Carrie-Anne Moss
If you think about ‘The Matrix’ and how high-concept it was, it had these incredible ideas that really penetrated people’s consciousness. It really was a film of awakening. I think a lot of people woke up around that film.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we’ve had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone’s story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.
Carrie-Anne Moss
You’re in another reality when you’re looking down at your phone, walking across the street, and almost getting hit by a car.
Carrie-Anne Moss
It’s really hard to make a living as an actor. I’m grateful as I drive to work every morning.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I think everything happens at exactly the time it’s supposed to.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I’ve become a lot wiser over the years.
Carrie-Anne Moss
That first year after a child, I kind of just hunker down at home – I surrender to that side of me. I don’t try to get my body back or be in the world; I go the opposite way.
Carrie-Anne Moss
In real life, I’m the kind of person that if I use Siri, I thank her afterwards.
Carrie-Anne Moss
There was a day when doing TV was like, oh my God, the end of your career. Now it’s just like, we all want to do TV; we all want to do great TV.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I love storytelling. I love characters that are complicated and layered, real people, that you see why they do what they do.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Every time I hear about a new show, and I see a show that is being created that is nothing like I’ve ever thought about, I just get so excited about that expansion. Because I started working when ‘L.A. Law’ was on. It was lawyers and cops.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I like stories about the world, where we’re at. I like to explore humanity. I like to explore my own humanity.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I’ve never been attracted to sci-fi per se. People tell me I’m in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that ‘The Matrix’ was genre.
Carrie-Anne Moss
I think it’s great that we’re living in a time when everyone is being represented on TV and film.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Not for one second do I not, like, pinch myself that I’ve had a successful acting career for 24 years. I am so grateful. But it’s unfortunate that we live in a society that really puts a lot of pressure on women to look a certain way and to age a certain way. I think that sucks.
Carrie-Anne Moss
When I was younger and I was getting older, I remember thinking that if I couldn’t do it gracefully, then I would have to quit. You know, looking at yourself aging onscreen, it can bring up stuff. It’s one thing to be aging in a job where your looks don’t matter, but as an actress, it’s so much part of your image.
Carrie-Anne Moss