Carla Gugino Quotes

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.

If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

You can be really weird, and people will still accept you if you're in movies. I'm not actually weird, but if I feel like being weird, then I can do it, and they accept it because you're an actor.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.