Quotes from Andrew Garfield

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I sincerely want to help create beauty in the world and move a culture of separateness back towards community. I really, really do, and I think art is a powerful way of doing that.

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is where I felt soothed, that is where I felt most myself... safest.

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

I was a monkey child. I was like a clown.

I don't believe anyone is ugly.

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid.

As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.