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When I was an ingénue, I never sounded like one. I was at least 10 years too young when I did the “Spy Kids” movie, and I then struggled with the fact that people thought I was much older than I was. So I would be in a situation where they would think I was older than Brad Pitt or the leading man of that moment, and I’d go, “No, no, I’m only 28!” I knew I would hit my stride when I hit 30, when the inside and the outside of me would start to connect more. And my best roles started coming in my 30s and even in my 40s. Carla Gugino for The New York Times [Feb 2020]

What did you learn from that time in your life that you still carry with you today? “One of my mentors said to me at 16 a very simple statement, which is when you’re on your deathbed, make sure it’s your life that you’ve been living. I think that’s really something that has influenced me in my life and in my career. And that answer is always changing, like what is your life and what do you want your life to look like and what is your truth? Because I think so often society will encourage us to find our value based on other people’s definition of us. It was a really good reminder to learn at an early age to follow my own path.” CARLA GUGINO for 1883 Magazine 📸 Danilo Hess

"I found Carla to be warm. I found her brave. I found her funny. I found her thrilling. I found her willing to be loved and wounded. All to the depth of her bones.” - Peter Krause

“I will go to the deepest depths of my soul to find the girl I’m playing, and when I do that, I inevitably find pieces of myself. I pretend I’m only looking for the character, and that helps me to be brave in looking all the way into myself. But it’s just a mind-trick, I think we’re all just finding out who we are the best we can.” Carla Gugino for Razor (2005)   📷 Jack Guy

Although Reaser became part of director Mike Flanagan’s revolving troupe of actors in Ouija: Origin of Evil, she didn’t team up with him on his next film, Gerald’s Game. But when her father saw a poster for the film, he got upset that his daughter hadn’t told him about this latest gig— even though the woman he saw on the poster was actually Carla Gugino. “I’m incredibly flattered,” Reaser told us, laughing. “If there is someone to look like, I’m happy for it to be her.”

“[Carla Gugino] is the author of Karen Sisco. What I mean by that is, Carla’s performances told the whole damn story. I don’t know where you get her kind of moves. Maybe Carla’s actually from Venus; she couldn’t possibly be from around here.” - Robert Forster

“Carla [Gugino] can do anything she wants to do as an actress. She can embody the sexiness of a female spy - the danger, the intelligence - yet be warm enough that you could see her being this wonderful, warm, loving mother to two small children - even though she was too young to really be any of those things.” - Robert Rodriguez

“The idea that, as an actor, what was required of me was a certain sense of abandon and risk in pursuit of a larger cause has been so freeing for me. I was so serious when I was young. My mom would come home and say, ‘Carla, stop studying.’ Or, ‘The dishes are clean enough.’ I felt that to be successful I couldn’t drink, I couldn’t smoke. But acting taught me to have a life that could feed my work.” - Carla Gugino