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

Categorized in : Own Push Want Creative

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

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

dinner-with-friends favorites-things my-favorite

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

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

sexuality who-we-are

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

schizophrenic actresses can-do

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.

names kids thinking

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

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

naked revealing actors

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

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

chocolate dark two

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.

games together people

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."

mom students kids

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."

given successful matter

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

I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

huge fans

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so y... by Carla Gugino

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

challenges young

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.

creative wings trying

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.

mom jobs kids

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.

movie kind silly

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.

movie vision people

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.

letting-go ideas thinking

I love doing serious movies for adults. by Carla Gugino

I love doing serious movies for adults.

movie adults serious

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.

movie girl men

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

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

body want men

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.

acting age people