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Carrie-Anne Moss

Canadian Actress

Born: Aug 21, 1967

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 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

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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

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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

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

In real life, I'm the kind of person that if I use Siri, I thank her afterwards. Carrie-Anne Moss

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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

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It's never a surprise to me that a job that I'm doing reflects what I'm going through or what I'm thinking about. Carrie-Anne Moss

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I'm not one of those people that needs to have all of the new gadgets or wants any of that. Carrie-Anne Moss

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'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. Carrie-Anne Moss

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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. Carrie-Anne Moss

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I feel so lucky that I had so many opportunities. Carrie-Anne Moss

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I love 'The Matrix' a lot - I am lucky and blessed to be a part of it, and I believe in it. Carrie-Anne Moss

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I quit steaks for a while, but it's a hard habit to break. Carrie-Anne Moss

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I just know when I read something if it's something that I want to do. Carrie-Anne Moss

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