Carrie-Anne Moss (Actor)

"I had a wonderful time but the work itself wasn't that fulfilling. I learned a lot--I learned what not to do." --Moss on working on Aaron Spelling's less-than-successful confection "Models Inc.". quoted in Calgary Sun, September 21, 1996.

"I worked in every restaurant in Vancouver. When I was 19, I had given up my dream of acting because I didn't know how to go about it. Gil Bellows, the actor from 'Ally McBeal'-we hung out together in high school- came into my restaturant one day and said 'I thought you wanted to be an actor. You had so much passion for acting. What are you doing?' I quit the next day." --quoted in Movieline, February 1999.

Moss was named after the 1960s hit song "Carrie Anne" by The Hollies

On her supportive friendship with fellow actress Maria Bello: "I had done a lot of nonrespectful television, things that people don't think are any good. And I didn't have a lot of confidence as an actor, in terms of being an artist. My career transformed when I met her--she inspired me to believe that I had that in me." --From Time Out New York, February 4-11, 1999.