Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

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

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

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.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

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

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

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

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

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.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

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

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

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

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

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.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

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.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

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

Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino

I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.