Gina Gershon Quotes
[On
Showgirls] "I decided to make my part campy because I initially thought that it was going to be really dark and really intense and then it just turned out to be completely different. So instead of going in that direction, I decided to make it so that drag queens would want to dress as my character on Halloween".
All I wanted to do was play "Conrad Birdie"; I really wanted to be like the
Elvis Presley guy, and they ended up giving me the lead, "Rosie".
All my roles are different parts of my personality. Hannah is the caretaker part of me, the psychologist in
Prague Duet ... is the part of me that's always analyzing, Guinevere's Billie is the artistic side.
Being the control freak that I am, I want to know everything beforehand. At this point I'm just going along for the ride.
A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do
Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.
I'm just nervous and anxious all the time - I drink too much coffee. But you know, everything can be solved with a bottle; the bottle is a universal cure-all - and not just a booze bottle, any bottle. You break up with your boyfriend, you get a bottle of peroxide. You get sad, you have a drink. Need to sleep? Get a bottle of pills. Baby needs to be calmed down? Give it a bottle. There are genies in bottles.
Showgirls was a great lesson in power. People would come up to me - like smarmy guys usually saying, 'So, you're doing Showgirls,' and they'd kind of look me over. And I would look them dead in the eye and go, 'Yeah. I run around naked in it and I kiss beautiful girls - it's great.' And they would visibly shrink away because I didn't back down. They were trying to have control over me, but as long as you're proud of what you're doing, and say so, people can't fuck with you, they'll respect you for your choices. If you act embarrassed, then you know you shouldn't be doing whatever it is.
