Quotes by Elisabeth Moss - Page 1

I'm so afraid of confrontation.
Elisabeth Moss / Tv Actor
Confrontation
Afraid
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I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.
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Human Rights
Fundamentally
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Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.
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Describe
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I love my work, but I do not think that I am saving the world... I am a Valley Girl.
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Love Work World
Valley
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I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.
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Passing
Passed
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I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.
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Ballet
Classical Music
Classical
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I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.
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Good Stories
Reflect
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I spent seven seasons on 'Mad Men,' playing what became considered a very feminist character.
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Mad Men
Seasons
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It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting.
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Men And Women
Workplace
Men Women Great
Dynamic
Women Men Great
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Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.
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Humans
Men And Women
Stories
Women Are
Work Women Men
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There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.
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Character
Different
Vanity
Character Yourself Your
Different Person
Wears
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When I was 12, I didn't know about Nirvana or Oasis or any of those people. I was listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Gershwin.
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Gershwin
Oasis
People Listening Know
Ella
Fitzgerald
Nirvana
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There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.
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Polite
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My earliest memories are at the Blue Note here in New York or backstage at different theatres or different clubs, dressing rooms.
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Blue
Clubs
Memories
Rooms
Backstage
Dressing
Earliest
Earliest Memories
Note
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I think it's very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.
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Ideals
Yourself Your Important
Be True
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I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.
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Inspiring
Film
Influence
Thinking
Davis
Bette
Influences
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I think that people should absolutely be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies and to live the life they want to lead.
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Life People Live
Absolutely
Allowed
Bodies
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Women need to be able to speak out if they are uncomfortable or something happened in the past that they were not comfortable with.
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Uncomfortable
In The Past
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To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.
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Girl
Cry
Interrupted
Relief
Tv Shows
Welcome
Wings
Tv Show
West Wing
Wing
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Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and made by women because that's what's in our world.
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Art
Diverse
World
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I wish I was super-serious, anguished. I see those actors, and I am like, 'Oh God, they are so cool, and they seem so interesting.' I don't take acting that seriously.
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Wish
Anguished
Oh God
Seem
Seriously
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I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.
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Inspire
Long
Thinking
Adult
Crossing
Stick
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I've always considered myself a feminist. But, like a lot of women of my generation, I didn't think we had to fight for it. I thought it was all done. I took so much for granted.
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Granted
My Generation
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Women know that we're not just strong. We're not just vulnerable. We are not just attractive or not attractive. We are many things at once, and we're able to see into that complexity.
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Attractive
Complexity
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We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come over, and there would be a jam session with everyone playing jazz.
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Instruments
Jam
Jazz
Session
People Always Everyone
Holidays
Jamming
Musicians
Tons
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I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.
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Boys
Cry
Inspire
Thinking
Yearning
Good Me Day
Hilary
Inspires
Something Else
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Ever since I was 15, when I did my first movie by myself, where my mom wasn't there and I had a guardian, I got to know the crew, and I got to be part of a group and a family. I love that part of it, the friendships that you make.
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Crew
Guardian
Love Family Mom
Friendships
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One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize it's just gone.
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Mad Men
One Day
Thinking
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I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.
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Men
Mad Men
Successful
Thinking
Anticipated
Count
Hoped
Pilot
Prayed
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The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything.
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Honestly
Loaded
Storyline
Barely
History Great Look
Exchange
Great Thing
Peggy
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She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.
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Inspiring
Mom
Mother
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I do think that there is something about an intelligent, strong woman who also needs to be taken care of that will attract a certain kind of man sometimes. And that relationship is interesting on screen. Bad relationships are more interesting than good relationships to watch.
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Intelligent
Good Relationship Man
Attract
Good Relationships
Strong Woman
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If I'm not like my characters, I think just it's like a musician liking to play certain pieces of music rather than others. I just have more satisfaction when playing complicated things rather than some of your more straightforward, simple moments. . . . I like to be challenged.
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Character
Simple
Thinking
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I feel like women still deal with dressing appropriately for the office. It's by choice - you don't want to sexualize yourself too much. You want to be respected. You want to be taken seriously, and there's certain things in our culture, if you do, if you wear, you won't be taken seriously.
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Choices
Office
Taken
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Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
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Men And Women
Scene
Life Experience Women
Peggy
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When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll have rehearsal and talk about it, and you'll have plenty of time with the script. So, for me, I really do feel like an audition is a sketch of what you might do.
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Auditions
Might
Rehearsal
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Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.
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Classical Music
Jazz
Joy
Likes
Musician
Paint
Rolling
Camera
Classical
Loves
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I love baseball games. I got to go to World Series last year. I watch almost every Cubs game. If I can't watch, I get the updates on my phone. I don't like to go to parties that much. I don't like a lot of people around me, but not in like a weird anxiety way. I just don't like to have to talk to a lot of people.
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Baseball
Party
People
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I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.
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Men
Character
Interesting Characters
Writing
Love Work Men
Alongside
Male
Creates
Male Actors
Solely
Tendency
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Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.
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Honesty
Real
Views
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I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.
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Daughter
Grace
Grounded
Mother
Saving Grace
Stars
West
Child Actor
West Wing
Wing
Working Actor
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I auditioned for 'Mad Men.' I auditioned for 'Top of the Lake.' I obviously auditioned for 'West Wing,' so I still get excited when I get offered stuff. Like, a part of me thinks, 'They think I can do it! That's awesome!' And that's a part of me I have to squash; otherwise, I would do everything just because people gave it to me.
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Mad
Mad Men
Squash
Men Me People
Awesome
Lake
Offered
West Wing
Wing
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Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my part. It's only recently that that's been pointed out by the media . . . or pointed out by fans. I also find complicated, flawed characters interesting. What's the opposite? To play one-dimensional, boring failures?
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Character
Feminist
Interesting
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I heard that people were really interested in the new haircut, which I think is so funny. Great haircut, I really like it. It goes great with the time period. And I was super, super, super-happy to have my bangs swept to the side rather than straight in front of me, which I dealt with for three seasons. I'm very, very much done with that.
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Bangs
Heard
Seasons
Funny Time Great
Dealt
Period
Front
Haircut
Super
Swept
Time Period
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I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.
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Courage
Different Things
Idiocy
Mad
Mad Men
Pain
Vulnerability
Combined
Lake
Peggy
Robin
Top
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I'm a champion napper. For the past decade, I've taken a nap at lunch on set. I have a noise machine app on my phone, headphones - and that's key. That's probably the most important thing. If I can get an eye mask on, that's great. And that's it. After a half an hour, I'm like a new person. It's just in that first half an hour, don't talk to me.
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Eye
Past
Taken
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Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn't think that I was that young. It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible. At the same time, it turned out for the best. I'm glad that I'm not there. I'm glad that it didn't happen when I was 50. I'm glad I didn't have kids. And I got that out of the way. Hopefully. Like, that's probably not going to happen again.
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Kids
Candid
Thinking
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Twitter scares me. I think it's so amazing, like the internet in general, because of the connection that it gives people. But the concept that one 140-word post can change someone's life . . . that scares me. You can literally ruin someone's life with one tweet. So I only do Instagram. I love photography . . . and interacting with the fans. I do love hearing from them. I try to answer questions if I can.
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People
Photography
Thinking
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At 15, you have to decide if you're going to go into professional dancing and really pursue it. I just a) knew that I couldn't stop acting, and b) I had that sort of foresight to understand that when I was 35 - if I was lucky and if I hadn't gotten injured - my career would be on its way to ending. Now, at 34, I really understand that. But at 15, I understood that as well. I was like, "I can't. That's just too risky.".
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Acting
Dancing
Lucky
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