101 Quotes by Carla Gugino

I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.

The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I've learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world.

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

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. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.

I don't have a favorite genre. I mean, I always sort of base it on instinct. And it does seem to be that after I finish something that is very dramatic, I end up inevitably wanting to do a comedy or something like that.

You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.

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.

I think the scariest thing to me is to think that somebody would only associate me with one character and that that's all that I would get to play.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.