Minnie Driver Quotations

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him

People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook

I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

When the time came to begin I was so completely terrified that my legs turned numb

Minnie is my nickname. Amelia's my real name. I'd love to be an Amelia, but frankly then I think I should be a German woman with a horned hat.

Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.

It's unfortunate that Matt went on 'Oprah.' It seemed like a good forum for him to announce to the world that we were no longer together, which I found fantastically inappropriate. Of course, he was busy declaring his love for me on 'David Letterman' a month previously.

Nothing is impossible. With the right attitude, you can do anything you want. It's all about choosing to be positive instead of being negative about things. Like I can look at ""not working"" as being ""no one's hiring me and no one will give me a job."" Or I can look at ""not working"" as being ""a fantastic vacation.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.

I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.

Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.

I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.

I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.

I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.

I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.

I want a regular pay cheque.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.

I really believe in the characters I play.

I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

I can't pass a puppy, a kid or a baby without stopping. It's really annoying to every boyfriend I've ever head. My mother will roll her eyes and go, "God, really?!" But, I find children funny and great, and I love them.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.