Quotes from Carrie-Anne Moss

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

I want to feel creative when I'm working. I don't want to just work for the sake of working.

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

I've never been attracted to sci-fi per se. People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that 'The Matrix' was genre.

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.

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

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.

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.

When I was a kid, I didn't know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

I guess when you're carrying a film, you feel the weight of that because you're there every day, and you feel the weight of your character that way.

One of the things that impacted me the most was in the 12th grade. I just assumed I would get the lead in the musical. Well, I didn't get it; I got the second lead, and I was devastated... my mom said something like, 'Often the supporting character is better.'

I think everything happens at exactly the time it's supposed to.

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.

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.

Who could have imagined that a platform like - I'll use Netflix as a example - that it could be so good?

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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'm so damn lucky to make a living acting, but it's not that I love it, not all the time. If I couldn't act, I wouldn't die. I'm much more interested in the human aspect of life than the pretend.

Marriage is a lot more challenging when you have a demanding career.