Quotes

After The Matrix (1999), I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.

I think dreams are important to inspire us to get out of bed every morning.

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.

I wouldn't play another character like Trinity out of respect to her and respect to the film. I don't want to be the leather-clad, kicking-butt girl with another name. It would be like cheating on Trinity.

I don't have issues with playing moms. When a role is well-written, whatever it is, it's just about playing the truth of the character. I always wanted to be a mother. I love it.

Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though -- I'll tell anyone anything. 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.

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.

To be honest, I didn't find it that difficult to get past The Matrix. I never felt typecast at all.

I've always been that girl. Tell me that I can't do something and I'll do it.

[in 2014] Yes I'm still in contact with my Matrix family. Life gets busy for all of us but the connection is always there.

I have a very mystical view on what I do for work, and I trust that things are brought to me that I'm meant to do.

I've never been interested in action movies, definitely not interested in sci-fi.

It just feels like us Canadian girls are a little simpler.

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.

I don't really look at any of [my projects] too intellectually. It's like people say, 'Oh my god, you're in all these sci-fi movies.' It wouldn't even cross my mind that any of them are sci-fi. I don't see it like that, I look at it as a story.

One of my greatest memories as a child was lying on the ground, snow coming down. I was with the girls I babysat, singing Christmas carols at the top of our lungs to that incredible stillness of snow.

I [remember] having an acting coach who said I wouldn't make it because my ass was too big. And I remember being really offended. But in a way, it lit my fire to go, 'You know what? Fuck you. And I'll show you.'