Quotes from Minnie Driver

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 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.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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

I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.

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.

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.

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

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 taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.

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.

I want a regular pay cheque.

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

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

If I could afford to live in London I would.