Carla Gugino

“Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.”

“I love doing serious movies for adults.”

“My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.”

“I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.”

“Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.”

“I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.”

“I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'”

“I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.”

“I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.”

“I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.”

“When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.”

“It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.”

“I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.”

“My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.”

“My father and my mother separated when I was two.”

“I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.”

“I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.”

“Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.”

“As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.”

“You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.”