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