Julianne Moore Shares What She Advises Her Children About Their Future Careers

Julianne Moore looks stunning on the cover of WSJ. Magazine’s November Innovator’s Issue, on newsstands November 9th.

Here’s what the 58-year-old actress had to share with the mag:

On winning an Oscar: “You can’t have it as a goal. It can’t be. It’s a marker. I remember somebody asked Jodie Foster about winning an Oscar, and she said, ‘Oh, my God, it was such a relief.’ I laughed, because that is how it feels. You have to work for the work. You have to like the process and like doing it because you like doing it. And yet our culture has these competitions and these prizes…so on one hand, it feels like, Phew. On the other hand, it’s like, Are you kidding? Did that actually happen to me?”

On counseling her kids on career and life choices: “It’s hard to continue to be employed, continue to do work that interests you. I talk about that with my kids all the time. As they’re making choices…I’m like, If you’re lucky to find something that interests you and to be able to pursue it, that’s fantastic. That’s what you want. That’s a measure of success if you’re doing something that you really enjoy and then you manage to get paid, because that’s not a given.”

On Gloria Steinem, who she portrays in The Glorias: “She’s just as glorious as you’d imagine. She’s very smart, which goes without saying, but she’s also incredibly thoughtful and patient and tolerant. Her ability to not be rash, and to speak to people who are very different than she is and not judge is really exemplary. You literally think, OK, what would Gloria Steinem do? How would she handle this situation? Because she’d handle it beautifully.”

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