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Gena Rowlands Biography

Virginia Cathryn Rowlands (born June 19, 1930), professionally known as Gena Rowlands, is an American actress, whose career in film, stage, and television has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Opening Night (1977). In November 2015, Rowlands received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of her unique screen performances.

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

Business, Cow, Cows, Hollywood, Movie, Sacred

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.

Alive, Asked, Death, Husband, Self, Unhappy

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

Forget, Forget It, Ifs, Like

I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

Influence, Read, Scripts, Times, Under

He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.

Actor, Actors, Just Being, Live, Performances, Successful

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.

Easier, Emotional, Film, Onstage, Part

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. "

Father, Happy, Home, Mom, Told

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.

Interesting, Middle, Night, Offered, Play

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

Actress, Actresses, Life, Thought

So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.

Directed, Nicely, Shadow, Shadows, Very Nice, Wrote

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.

Cassavetes, Course, Easy, Said, Scripts

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

Art, Arts, Carnegie, Dramatic, Exciting, Hall

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

Part, Play, Think, Thinking

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.

Davis, Funny, Laughing, Saws, Strong

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.

People, See, Together, Watches, Worked

I got a part opposite Edward G. Robinson in a play called Middle of The Night, which Paddy Cheyafsky had written. It played for a long time because everybody just loved Edward G. Robinson, everybody in New York wanted to see it. John [Cassavetes] and I were married at the time and put into a position where I was working very long evening hours and he was working in the daytime and so there was a lot of spare time.

Evening, New York, Night, Opposite, Play, Working

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.

Ones, People, Think, Thinking, True, Wrote

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.

Cassavetes, Come, Drama, Long, School, Years

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

Actress, Actresses, Life, Wanted

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.

Anymore, Parent, University, Waiting, Wisconsin

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