Gena Rowlands Thinking Quotations

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

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."

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.

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

I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

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.