101 Quotes by Carla Gugino

I’m fiercely protective of my privacy.

I think I’m always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it’s more successful than others.

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.

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

I have a very strong work ethic, and I’m very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, “Oh, I can play a little as well.”

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’ll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

It’s interesting how when you walk into a room in LA there’s a sense of what you walk in, as is sort of what you can do. So I spent a lot of time choosing different things to hopefully show people that maybe that’s not the case.

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.