Top 56 Quotes & Sayings by Minnie Driver
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
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.
You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not a nutcase. I know that.
I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.
My 20s were a completely and utterly different time in my life.
I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.
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.
As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.
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 would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.
I live a generally quiet life, as it were.
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.
I really believe in the characters I play.
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.
Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.
If I could afford to live in London I would.
I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.
Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.
I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.
I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.
I've always been pretty nomadic.
I want a regular pay cheque.
I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.
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.
But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
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.
Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.
I'm a huge Springsteen fan.
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.
I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.
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 wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.
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.'
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.
In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.
I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
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 like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.
The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.
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.
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
Security has come from being successful.
I'm proud of my life.
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 will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.
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
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
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.
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.
Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Cream - you can use it everywhere.
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 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
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