Top 44 Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

In real life, I’m the kind of person that if I use Siri, I thank her afterwards.

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.

I like stories about the world, where we’re at. I like to explore humanity. I like to explore my own humanity.

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

I want to feel creative when I’m working. I don’t want to just work for the sake of working.

After ‘The Matrix,’ I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.

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.

I will never do another kung fu movie again.

In TV, I did scripts that were not well-written, and I learned how to make bad material okay. That’s a hard thing to do; you can learn bad habits, but you can also learn to find something in anything.

Who could have imagined that a platform like – I’ll use Netflix as a example – that it could be so good?

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.

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.

When I first had kids, I had a suitcase under my bed that I didn’t even put away, and I was excited about going to all of these new places all of the time.

Before that film, I was nobody. Each job I got, I was so excited. Each paycheck I got, I thought, ‘Wow, I’m getting paid to act.’ But ‘The Matrix’ gave me so many opportunities. Everything I’ve done since then has been because of that experience. It gave me so much.

You try not to judge the characters you’re playing.

You’ll have a guy, and they’re aging however they’re aging, and nobody really cares. If you’re a woman, it’s different.

There is so much conflicting advice for mothers. Women finding out what works for them is the most important aspect. For me, being connected to myself helps me make decisions better to take care of my children.

I think it’s great that we’re living in a time when everyone is being represented on TV and film.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

When I was a kid, I didn’t know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.

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.

I’m a very simple person. I don’t use computers.

I was never afraid of taking the wrong job because maybe it would hurt me. I was more interested in the experience.

I learned how to act working in TV.

‘Revolutions’ was beyond my wildest dreams. I just really enjoyed it so much visually, the action and then the story and the characters, the beauty of that. The love in the film really inspired me.

I love ‘The Matrix’ a lot – I am lucky and blessed to be a part of it, and I believe in it.

I think that Trinity’s just the greatest character that I could ever play. I don’t expect to ever play another woman that wonderful. I have a lot of Trinity in me, for sure.

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.

For me, the biggest thing is someone who’s kind. I’m not into the bad-boy thing.

It’s really hard to make a living as an actor. I’m grateful as I drive to work every morning.

When the fights were over for the second and third ‘Matrix,’ I thought, ‘Okay, I never have to do that again.’ It’s incredibly stressful.

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.

I watched the entire ‘House of Cards.’ I couldn’t stop watching it. I was staying up until 4 o’clock in the morning. I just couldn’t stop… I’m crazy about Netflix. I’m excited that the world we live in is changing so much.

One of the things that impacted me the most was in the 12th grade. I just assumed I would get the lead in the musical. Well, I didn’t get it; I got the second lead, and I was devastated… my mom said something like, ‘Often the supporting character is better.’

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.

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.

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.

When I was seven, my mom would come home every day, and I would have the phone book open to talent agencies, and I would have them highlighted.

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.

You never know, especially on episodic television, you just don’t know week to week what’s going to happen.

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.

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.

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.

When I realised that what I do really well is play women who are tough and vulnerable, it was a moment of clarity. Many female characters either have one trait or the other, but I play both. I don’t need to play characters who are like me. I can just do that with my life.