Carrie-Anne Moss

The thing I love about music is that if a singer is good, let's say, you are instantly transported to that emotion. Acting is a more drawn-out process. ”

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

I love storytelling. I love characters that are complicated and layered, real people, that you see why they do what they do. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn't want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way. ”

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. ”

Before that film, I was nobody. Each job I got, I was so excited. Each paycheck I got, I thought, 'Wow, I'm getting paid to act.' But 'The Matrix' gave me so many opportunities. Everything I've done since then has been because of that experience. It gave me so much. ”

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

I grew up in a very middle-class life. I'm grateful for it - it has given me a lot of stability. ”