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Minnie Driver
English
Actress
About the author
I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Acting
#Love
#Age
#Singing
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.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Worth
#Awards
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.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Success
#May
#First
#Singing
#Dream
You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Film
#Being
#Tradition
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.'
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#People
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.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Experience
#Movies
#Nature
#Quiet
#Weight
#Theater
#Machine
#Gravity
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.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Play
#Music
#Actor
I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#God
#First
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.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Want
#Man
#Old
#Fancy
I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Love
#Theater
#Bizarre
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.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Cities
#Yoga
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Celebrity
But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Love
#England
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.
Minnie Driver,
English
Actress
#Painting
#Gifts
#Boyfriend