Latest Andrew Garfield Quotes from Interviews

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• I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it. I read Naomi Klein's No Logo when I was 15. It's one of the things that's shaped my relationship to fame - to endorsements, to selling things. I've taken a certain path in terms of all that stuff.

  Andrew Garfield

  Strong, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.elle.com

• I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

  Andrew Garfield

  Jobs, Mean, Roles

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

• 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.

  Andrew Garfield

  Writing, People, Want

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

• 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.

  Andrew Garfield

  Opportunity, Thinking, Validation

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

• I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.

  Andrew Garfield

  Actors, Remember, Autonomy

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

• I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few people that I could do it, I had kind of grabbed onto it and dug in my claws in a way that was maybe a bit unhealthy. I allowed myself to get into a headspace where I lived or died by what I achieved in this particular field.

  Andrew Garfield

  People, Acting, Way

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

• 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. I was brought up on American films.

  Andrew Garfield

  Kids, Thinking, Land

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

• When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

  Andrew Garfield

  Depressing, Reality, Guitar

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

• Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people. ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan.

  Andrew Garfield

  People, Scare, Fans

  "Andrew Garfield back on screen, and Comic-Con, as Spidey". The Associated Press Interview, www.denverpost.com. July 26, 2013.

• Obviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question about the nature of these comic book characters and the nature of this particular character, and whether sexuality, race, any of those things makes any difference to the character of Peter Parker.

  Andrew Garfield

  Book, Character, Gay