Minnie Driver Quotes


Minnie Driver

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Visiting factories in Cambodia: "Every time companies squeeze to get lower production costs, faster production, it`s nobody but the working women who suffer and their families back at home."

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

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

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

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.

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

I box as a sport, but I`d never box with a man. I`m not afraid of getting hurt. Quite the opposite: I`m afraid I`d get carried away and hurt 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.`






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