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You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.
Minnie Driver
2.
As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.
Minnie Driver
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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.
Minnie Driver
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The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.
Minnie Driver
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I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.
Minnie Driver
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Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.
Minnie Driver
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But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
Minnie Driver
8.
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
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I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
Minnie Driver
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Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
Minnie Driver
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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
12.
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
13.
I live a generally quiet life, as it were.
Minnie Driver
14.
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
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I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.
Minnie Driver
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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
17.
As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.
Minnie Driver
18.
Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.
Minnie Driver
19.
I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.
Minnie Driver
20.
I want a regular pay cheque.
Minnie Driver
21.
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.
Minnie Driver
22.
I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.
Minnie Driver
23.
Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.
Minnie Driver
24.
I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.
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25.
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.
Minnie Driver
26.
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
27.
I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.
Minnie Driver
28.
I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.
Minnie Driver
29.
I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.
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30.
I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.
Minnie Driver
31.
I really believe in the characters I play.
Minnie Driver
32.
I can't pass a puppy, a kid or a baby without stopping. It's really annoying to every boyfriend I've ever head. My mother will roll her eyes and go, "God, really?!" But, I find children funny and great, and I love them.
Minnie Driver
33.
Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Cream - you can use it everywhere.
Minnie Driver
34.
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
35.
I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.
Minnie Driver
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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.
Minnie Driver
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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