Explore Quotes by Carla Gugino

I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

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.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

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.

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.

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

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.

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

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.