Carla Gugino Quotes

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.

Money or no money, acting is my calling.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

Acting is everything to me; it's what I've always wanted to do. I may never have this chance to do what I'm doing right now. So I guess right now I'm going to do as much as I can with it.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.

My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth in school. As a young actor, you're always mystified and intrigued by such brilliant work. To actually have the chance to be involved in this production was a wonderful thing for me.

I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.