Gena Rowlands Quotes

• todos los escritores creativos necesitan un cierto tiempo cuando están creando algo en el que nadie debe criticarles en absoluto, en absoluto. Incluso si la crítica es válida o buena, deberían callarse y dejar que esa persona cree. Porque llega un momento en que tienes que hacerlo tuyo, no del mundo, sino tuyo.

  Gena Rowlands

  Creating, Creative, Criticism

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• La gente del cine independiente tiene pasión, no lo hace por dinero.

  Gena Rowlands

  Independent, Passion, People

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• If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

  Gena Rowlands

  Forget, Forget It, Ifs

  "Rowlands celebrates 6 decades in film with honorary Oscar". The Associated Press interview, www.arabnews.com. November 12, 2015.

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• You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

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  Death, Husband, Self

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• So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!” And I told my father and he literally said, “I don’t care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy.”

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  Mom, Father, Home

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

  Gena Rowlands

  Actrices

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After you play a part, you think of it as your own.

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  Thinking, Play

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• I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

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  Movie, Independent, Actors

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• [John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room next door. It just...started.

  Gena Rowlands

  Coffee, Doors, Tea

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

  Gena Rowlands

  Movie, Hollywood, Cows

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• I only watch my movies that I make once, so I can just see how it hangs together, but after that, I don't watch them again. A lot of people have disappeared from Earth that you've worked with, and they make me sort of sad once in a while, and there's really no necessity for me to watch them. I've made them, and it's on film and that's that.

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  People, Together, Watches

  "Rowlands celebrates 6 decades in film with honorary Oscar". The Associated Press interview, www.arabnews.com. November 12, 2015.

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• I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

  Gena Rowlands

  Littles, Bigs

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

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  Actresses, Wanted

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

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  Challenges, Influence, My Favorite

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

  Gena Rowlands

  Waiting, Parent, Wisconsin

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• John Cassavetes wrote A Woman Under the Influence as a play. He said, "Hey, I wrote you a play." And I said, "Great, let's read it." I read it and I said, "John, I couldn't do this every night and twice on Wednesday and Saturday".

  Gena Rowlands

  Night, Play, Hey

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction.

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  Actors, Littles, Kind

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

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  Emotional, Film, Easier

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're right. I hadn't thought of that." He said, "Just forget it."

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  Night, Thinking, Play

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

  Gena Rowlands

  Pensar, Padre, Mundo

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

  Gena Rowlands

  Thinking, People, Starting Out

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.

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  Strong, Laughing, Saws

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fui a la Academia Americana de Arte Dramático, que estaba en el Carnegie Hall, lo cual ya era emocionante, sólo entrar.

  Gena Rowlands

  Art, Dramatic, Carnegie

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

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  Daughter, Mother, Stories

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for drama, you do a play as opposed to a final. Anyone who wanted to come could just come. So he came, and I can't remember the name of the play, of course, it was a long time ago.

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  Drama, School, Years

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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