Carrie Anne Moss Quotes

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

  Carrie Anne Moss

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  Tags in Kind, Feared

• 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

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Moment, Try

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

  Carrie Anne Moss

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Freedom, Actor

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

  Carrie Anne Moss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in After, Put

• 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

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Faith, Hard

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Old

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awesome, Film

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

  Carrie Anne Moss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Biggest

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Eyes, Sometimes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Happened

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Tough

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Women

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Strong, Kind

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Feeling

• I’m such a private person, and s*xuality is such a private thing. A s*x 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crazy, Fight

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

  Carrie Anne Moss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simple, Person

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Husband, Over

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Did

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

  Carrie Anne Moss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action, Interested

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Play

Carrie Anne Moss (24)

Birth:	21st August, 1967
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actress, Model

About

Carrie Anne Moss was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She is a Canadian actress, best known for her role of Trinity in The Matrix trilogy of films beginning with the sci-fi action film The Matrix, her breakthrough film. While in Spain, Moss landed a role in the drama series Dark Justice, her first television appearance. She enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena upon her return. Her breakthrough role came when she was chosen to play Trinity in the 1999 box office success The Matrix. She reprised the role in two sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, as well as providing voiceovers for video game and animated spin-offs of the film. She starred with Guy Pearce in the thriller Memento for which Moss earned an Independent Spirit Award for her performance. In 2006 she appeared in Fido and Snow Cake, and in 2007 she appeared in the thriller Disturbia.

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