Carla Gugino Quotes
I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
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When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been engaged in a low wattage war someplace.
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I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
