Top 47 Gena Rowlands Quotes
#1. I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
William Hurt
#2. When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.
Leslie Hope
#3. For me, my favourite actresses are like Charlotte Rampling or Gena Rowlands ... people who have always stepped outside of the restraints of a certain type of woman or story. I always like those movies the best.
Kirsten Dunst
#4. I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.
Carmen Ejogo
#5. Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.
Dakota Johnson
#6. There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?
Natasha Lyonne
#7. You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her.
Winona Ryder
#8. To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider ... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother.
- Dedication, Todo Sobre Mi Madre
Pedro Almodovar
#9. I would love to work with Gena Rowlands. I just don't know in what capacity. I'd play her daughter or granddaughter, or whatever. I would just love to work with her, in whatever capacity.
Tatiana Maslany
#10. I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.
Tatiana Maslany
#11. The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
Gena Rowlands
#12. People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.
Gena Rowlands
#13. When I was in Middle of The Night, MGM came and offered me a contract and I said that when I got out of the play, I'd like to try it. I didn't know anything about making movies but I was certainly finding it interesting.
Gena Rowlands
#15. He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.
Gena Rowlands
#16. Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].
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#17. So many people mistakenly think that the rest of his [John Cassavetes] pictures and the ones we did were improvised, which isn't true. He wrote all the rest of them.
Gena Rowlands
#18. [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
#19. 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!" [laughs] 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."
Gena Rowlands
#20. I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.
Gena Rowlands
#21. 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".
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#22. So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.
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#23. 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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#24. I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.
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#25. 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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#26. Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.
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#27. I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.
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#28. 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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#29. I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.
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#30. I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.
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#31. 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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#32. 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.
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#33. A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.
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#34. It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did [Ernst] Hemingway and [William] Faulkner - and they're all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.
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#35. I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
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#36. I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.
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#38. 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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#39. 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.
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#40. Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].
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#41. 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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#42. I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.
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#43. 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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#44. If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.
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#45. After you play a part, you think of it as your own.
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#46. Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.
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#47. I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.
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