Minnie Driver Quotes (19 Quotes)


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

    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.

    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 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.

    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.


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

    Everyone's being terribly British and sort of stoic 'Yes, well OK, we'll walk over here and I'll take my trousers off here, and you'll lie down there and a bit of deep breathing and a breast will come out,' ... It's quite a good way of dealing with the embarrassment of 'Here's where I get naked.'

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

    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.

    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'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.

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

    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.

    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.

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

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

    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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