Carla Gugino Quotes

Because I'm quite small and young looking, anyway, I tend to play younger than I am.

I'm 25, but I look like I'm 16 so I don't really don't consider age personally.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

I was getting calls in 1970 from teenagers, little girls, and they'd say, 'Oh, I like your stories about so-and-so so much. How old are you? 20?' 'No. Older than that.' '30?' 'No. Older than that.' And they'd hang up.

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called 'Pretty Persuasion.' She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

I feel like I look 16 sometimes, which is a bummer, because I would love to date older guys.

I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.

A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

It was strange, especially because all of the projects I did when I was young, I was always the youngest on set or the only child, so I spent my formative years hanging out with 24-year-olds when I was 13.

I always hung out with older people. I would be the youngest out of the crew.

All my friends have always been older than me.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.