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
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.
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.
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.
I like stories about the world, where we're at. I like to explore humanity. I like to explore my own humanity.
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'm not a horror fan. I get scared easily.
I learned how to act working in TV.
I love 'The Matrix' a lot - I am lucky and blessed to be a part of it, and I believe in it.
Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.
I quit steaks for a while, but it's a hard habit to break.
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.
In real life, I'm the kind of person that if I use Siri, I thank her afterwards.
I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.
I've had moments where it's like being in the Matrix.
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.
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.
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've become a lot wiser over the years.
It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning.
Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.
To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.
Even though I thought of myself as soft and squishy, I always had this great will and focus and was just so driven.
I think everything happens at exactly the time it's supposed to.
For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing.
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.
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.
I feel so lucky that I had so many opportunities.
Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.
I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.
After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.
Jessica Jones isn't dressed in a sexy outfit to turn people on. She's gritty. She's a human being.
I have absolutely no problem being thought of as an action chick because, quite frankly, very few women have ever done that.
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.
I just know when I read something if it's something that I want to do.
You're in another reality when you're looking down at your phone, walking across the street, and almost getting hit by a car.
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.
You never know, especially on episodic television, you just don't know week to week what's going to happen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think you have to take each movie for its own value. There will be those you'll roll your eyes over and others you can't wait to see. It all has to do with the intention. If someone's intention is just to make money and exploit something for profit, then it's not good. If it's thoughtfully done, the proof's in the pudding.
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.
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.
'Field of Dreams' made me realize that I wanted to live my dreams, to risk things for what I felt and what I dreamt of.
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.
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 don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.
