Carla Gugino Quotes
I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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The constant search and witness for God's truth - that is the most rewarding journey any of us can take in life.
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I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
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If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
