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" 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

Great

Face

Look

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" The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre. "

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

" 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. "

" You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition. "

" 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. "

" I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor. "

" I've always been pretty nomadic. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money. "

" I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age. "

" 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. "

" Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids. "

Minnie Driver

Growing Up

Growing

" I'm proud of my life. "

" People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up. "

Minnie Driver

Work

People

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

" 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. "

Minnie Driver

I Can

Know

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

" I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point. "

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

Minnie Driver

Love

Process

" 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

Painting

Someone

" 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

Good

Friends

" Security has come from being successful. "

" I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet. "

" Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate. "

" 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. "