Carla Gugino Quotes
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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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.
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Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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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.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.
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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.
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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 fiercely protective of my privacy.
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'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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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.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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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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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.