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.

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

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

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

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.

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."

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.

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 started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

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

Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

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."

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.

I love doing serious movies for adults.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.

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'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

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