Carla Gugino Quotes

Maybe you don't know who a person is just based on the way they dress. I know that's a really simple thing you're supposed to be taught really young, but sometimes you can forget.

I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

I'm such a girly-girl! I don't know why people don't see that.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'