- Says she'd love to run Playboy magazine. (April 27, 2004)
- She starred in a music video by the cars called Hello Again. She says she had hello written across her tongue.
- When she was a little girl, she almost drowned looking for starfish on the beach.
- She got busted coming back from Cuba trying to smuggle cigars back to the U.S.
- She loves champagne.
- When BOUND started filming, Gina went to Jen Tilly's trailor, and offered her tequilla and chocolates.
- A girl fell from the balcony in San Fransisco trying to get to Gina at the San Fransisco Gay & Lesbian film festival. She says from that point she realised what it must have been like to be a Beatle.
- Her boxing partner preparing for BOUND was Bob Dylan. She was invited to play on stage with him, but couldn't go because she was filming BOUND.
- During a recent interview with Conan O'Brian, she wiped spit on him.
- Gina likes to sleep in the nude, with lots of pillows.
- She doesn't trust anyone who doesn't like to eat.
- She likes to travel.
- Ethnic Background: French, Russian and Dutch
- She calls herself impatient.
- Her music tastes include Frank Sinatra, Elvis Costello, Jimi Hendrix, and Patsy Cline.
- She is terrified of sharks and cockroaches, and has nightmares about sharks when about to begin a new project.
- She likes to shop for antiques.
- She eats lots of candy.
- Favorite food: sesame seed bagel with cream cheese, onion, tomato and Nova Scotia Lox.
- She would like to have drag queens dress up and play one of her roles, right down to the color of lipstick.
- Still gets butterflies at curtain call.
- She smokes cigars.
- She got into trouble in High School, and had the choice of either all girls' school, or Beverly Hills. She choose Beverly Hills!
- Says she was a juvenile delinquent.
- Nominated for Best Kiss at MTV Movie Awards for BOUND (1997) - shared with Jennifer Tilly
Quotes- "Dont put mascara on while driving. Especially while going around a blind curve."
- "I have a very sensitive stomach. I eat a lot of tums!"
- "After the first time I see myself in any movie I've just done, I usually think about other careers I could pursue."
- "I went into a chat room once. I had a strange sexual encounter in a "private room" with some guy from Ohio. He was probably 12. I hope I don't get arrested!
- "The world is my pet."
- "The idea of going to girls' school was just doomsday. And Beverly (Hills) had surfing class, two theatres and really good donuts."
- "After BOUND, they'll think I'm really butch--and a really good plumber. I'll have people calling me up to fix their pipes."
- "With these large dark eyebrows I've got, people are always going to think I'm a bitch. That's how it goes."
- "I could be Meryl Streep of the Mediterranean world!"
- "When I moved to New York, I re-invented myself from a Valley surfer chick to an East Coast snob. My accent and my whole look changed. Now I'd rather stay in and read books than go out and sun myself."
- On the filming of love scenes in BOUND: "I felt like I was having sex with about 20 people."
- 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."
- About the nudity in Showgirls: "I didn't expect to be dancing in a muumuu, but the first time I watched the film, I said 'Oh My God! I don't have any clothes on!' It's like my evil shadow stepped out and wreaked havoc all over the screen!"
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