Latest Carla Gugino Quotes from Interviews

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• I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.

  Carla Gugino

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. April 6, 2001.

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  People, Interesting, Different

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. April 6, 2001.

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  Mean, Doe, Comedy

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. April 6, 2001.

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

  Carla Gugino

  Penguins, Cold, Coldness

  "Carla Gugino Exclusive Interview EVERY DAY; Updates on SUCKER PUNCH, MR POPPER'S PENGUINS, ENTOURAGE and I MELT WITH YOU". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Carla Gugino Exclusive Interview EVERY DAY; Updates on SUCKER PUNCH, MR POPPER'S PENGUINS, ENTOURAGE and I MELT WITH YOU". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  Wings, Creative, Trying

  "Carla Gugino talks about her diverse career — and playing Cathy Rush in 'The Mighty Macs'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October, 2011.

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  People, Age, Acting

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  Interesting, People, Brain

• I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

  Carla Gugino

  Sports, Thinking, Play

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Dwayne Johnson & Cast Interview, San Andreas". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• 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."

  Carla Gugino

  Successful, Matter, Given

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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

  Carla Gugino

  Thinking, People, Consciousness

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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

  Carla Gugino

  Thinking, Childhood, Littles

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  Letting Go, Thinking, Ideas

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  Kids, Thinking, Names

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

• 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."

  Carla Gugino

  Strong, Grateful, Thinking

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

• 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."

  Carla Gugino

  Mom, Kids, Students

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

• 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?" .

  Carla Gugino

  Thinking, Auditions, Serious

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  People, Actors, Natural Instinct

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

• 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.

  Carla Gugino

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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

  Carla Gugino

  Jobs, Acting, Fortune

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.