Carla Gugino Quotes & Sayings

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both. — Carla Gugino

I think the scariest thing to me is to think that somebody would only associate me with one character and that that's all that I would get to play. — Carla Gugino

I was a really, really serious kid. And a really kind of controlling kid. Like I had things that, now, people would say are like - there's a name for many disorders as we know - but I would say, "If I pick this rubber band, then this will happen." It was that kind of want to control things, which I think all kids have to some extent. — Carla Gugino

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes." — Carla Gugino

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' — Carla Gugino

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages. — Carla Gugino

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision. — Carla Gugino

I do think that's one of the reasons that acting appealed to me so much: the idea of letting go of control in a controlled environment. Being able to go through the range of intense emotions and jump off the cliff, metaphorically, but in a creative way, and in a way where the structure was really solid. — Carla Gugino

I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day. — Carla Gugino

I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes. — Carla Gugino

I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well." — Carla Gugino

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other. — Carla Gugino

She's a (lesbian), but with a body like that she could get any man she wants. — Carla Gugino

'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie. — Carla Gugino

I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion. — Carla Gugino

I love doing serious movies for adults. — Carla Gugino

I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people. — Carla Gugino

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. — Carla Gugino

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy. — Carla Gugino

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do. — Carla Gugino

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened. — Carla Gugino

I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing. — Carla Gugino

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous. — Carla Gugino

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older. — Carla Gugino

I think maybe because I moved a lot in my childhood, I'm a little bit of a gypsy by nature. — Carla Gugino

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life. — Carla Gugino

I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan. — Carla Gugino

My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level. — Carla Gugino

The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I've learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world. — Carla Gugino

We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that. — Carla Gugino

It's interesting how when you walk into a room in LA there's a sense of what you walk in, as is sort of what you can do. So I spent a lot of time choosing different things to hopefully show people that maybe that's not the case. — Carla Gugino

You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness. — Carla Gugino

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate. — Carla Gugino

Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am. — Carla Gugino

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together. — Carla Gugino

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us. — Carla Gugino

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are. — Carla Gugino

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor. — Carla Gugino

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level. — Carla Gugino

My father and my mother separated when I was two. — Carla Gugino

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing. — Carla Gugino

When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes. — Carla Gugino

I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting. — Carla Gugino

I don't have a favorite genre. I mean, I always sort of base it on instinct. And it does seem to be that after I finish something that is very dramatic, I end up inevitably wanting to do a comedy or something like that. — Carla Gugino

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others. — Carla Gugino

I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet. — Carla Gugino

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them. — Carla Gugino

It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature. — Carla Gugino

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun. — Carla Gugino

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move. — Carla Gugino

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose. — Carla Gugino

There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings' resilience and the way in which everyone naturally comes together. I think you see the best in people in those moments for better or for worse and you find your best self. — Carla Gugino

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl. — Carla Gugino

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally. — Carla Gugino