Carla Gugino Famous Quotes and Saying

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

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

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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 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.

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

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

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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'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 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'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

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

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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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I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

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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.

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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 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 love doing serious movies for adults.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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.

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 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."

I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

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

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 played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

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.

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.

I love doing serious movies for adults.

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.

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

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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