Gena Rowlands Quotes

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• all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.

  Gena Rowlands

  Creating, Creative, Criticism

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• People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

  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.

  Gena Rowlands

  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.”

  Gena Rowlands

  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

  Actresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Gena Rowlands

  Thinking, Play

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

  Gena Rowlands

  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

  Source: 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.

  Gena Rowlands

  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.

  Gena Rowlands

  Actresses, Wanted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Gena Rowlands

  Challenges, Influence, My Favorite

  Source: 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

  Source: 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

  Source: 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.

  Gena Rowlands

  Actors, Littles, Kind

  Source: 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.

  Gena Rowlands

  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."

  Gena Rowlands

  Night, Thinking, Play

  Source: 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

  Thinking, Parent, World

  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.

  Gena Rowlands

  Strong, Laughing, Saws

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

  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.

  Gena Rowlands

  Daughter, Mother, Stories

  Source: 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.

  Gena Rowlands

  Drama, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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