Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

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

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.

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

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.

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.

To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.

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.