Carla Gugino Quotes
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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.
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You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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I can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What I love about him [Robert Rodriguez] is that he understands that actors are transformational. It's a natural instinct to ask people to do what you've seen them do before. Until you see someone do something new, you don't know what they can.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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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.
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I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.
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When my friends have a health concern, they call me. Ive 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.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
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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."
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I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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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.
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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.
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I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.
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I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
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I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.
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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.
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You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
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She's a (lesbian), but with a body like that she could get any man she wants.
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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.
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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.
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I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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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.
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I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.
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