Carla Gugino Quotes

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

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

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

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

I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .

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

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

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

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

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