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" I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" My father and my mother separated when I was two. "

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

" I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl. "

" 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. "

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Gypsy

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" When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose. "

" Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us. "

Carla Gugino

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