Carla Gugino Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
-
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
-
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
-
You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
-
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
-
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
-
I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
-
The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
-
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
-
I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
-
God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
-
I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
-
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
-
Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
-
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
-
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
-
In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
-
I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
-
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
-
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
-
Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
-
I was the worst, most sickly kid of all – 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.
-
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
-
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.
