Minnie Driver quotes:

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.

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.'

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 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.

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

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

Security has come from being successful.

I'm never going to be comfortable being squished into a box, and that's why it's been weird in Hollywood, they don't know what to do with me, because I can play the game up to a point, but then I can't at all.

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.

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

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

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

I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.

I want a regular pay cheque.

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.

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.

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.

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

What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? 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.

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.

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 live a generally quiet life, as it were.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

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.

I've always been pretty nomadic.

People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up.

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

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.

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

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.

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

I really believe in the characters I play.

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

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

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

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

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

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