Carla Gugino Quotes

I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?

I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the light. I'm just in love with the cars. I'm in love with all of it.

I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.

I love the silhouettes of the '50s that were feminine and womanly without being too revealing. I've always gravitated towards that kind of sense of style and fashion.

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.

They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.

Skating is now retro and hip.

I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.

My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them.

Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like.

I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.

Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.

I'm more a 1950s hourglass shape.

I'm attracted to the past.

I always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.

I love looking like classic Hollywood.

I've got a lot of '70s vintage. I'm a huge vintage junkie.

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

I made my statement... I had my foot in the '90s.

I've always liked higher necklines, and Mia Farrow is my ultimate inspiration. The baby-doll dresses with big Peter Pan collars that she wore in 'Rosemary's Baby' were iconic. I've been drawn to similar looks ever since.