Carla Gugino Quotes

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

The cool thing about doing films and being different characters is that it's new everyday and new every project. So, you're always learning something different and you get to do research.

While playing complex characters you're staying in the same place but you're departing with your mind and soul and educating yourself until you can really understand such huge worlds. Those are the roles that keep loyal to the authenticity of what people are, and not caricatures. It's something that requires me to prepare for three, four months. I love the process of it, rather than, "Okay, I'm ready, I'm set with the wardrobe that somebody else chose for me."

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I'm very interested in science.

Science is always inquiring.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Write about what you want to know.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.