Quotes by Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Moss

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?

Character

Feminist

Interesting

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.

Art

Diverse

World

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.”.

Acting

Dancing

Lucky

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.

Honesty

Real

Views

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.

Daughter

Mother

Stars

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.

Men

Successful

Thinking

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.

Choices

Office

Taken

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.

Baseball

Party

People

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.

Character

Men

Writing

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.

Boys

Inspire

Thinking

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Kids

Long

Lucky

Mad Men

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Might

Mom

Mother

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One Day

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Simple

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Quotes by Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Moss

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.

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.

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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