Gena Rowlands - biography

“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.”

“I like subtitles.  Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.”

“People in independent film have a passion; they’re not in it for the money.”

“I love independent filmmaking.  I don’t agree with a lot of it, but that’s the point.”

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

“But you base everything on people you know.”

“I always do make a back story for myself, but I’m not sure how necessary it is.  I just like to.”

“I can never have a poker face.  Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I’m thinking.”

Gena Rowlands has appeared in the following films:
The High Cost of Loving (1958)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
The Spiral Road (1962)
A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Tony Rome (1967)
Faces (1968)
Machine Gun McCain (1969)
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Opening Night (1977)
The Brink’s Job (1978)
Tempest (1982)
Love Streams (1984)
Light of Day (1987)
Another Woman (1988)
Night on Earth (1991)
Once Around (1991)
Silent Cries (1993)
Something to Talk About (1995)
The Neon Bible (1995)
Unhook the Stars (1996)
She’s So Lovely (1997)
Playing by Heart (1998)
The Mighty (1998)
Hope Floats (1998)
Paulie (1998)
The Weekend (1999)
Taking Lives (2004)
The Notebook (2004)
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Broken English (2007)