Andrew Garfield

“Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.”

“I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.”

“I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.”

“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.”

“That's all I want, to keep losing myself.”

“I sincerely want to help create beauty in the world and move a culture of separateness back towards community. I really, really do, and I think art is a powerful way of doing that.”

“Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is where I felt soothed, that is where I felt most myself... safest.”

“I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it.”

“Since I was , I've had that feeling of, 'Am I enough? Am I worthy? Am I supposed to be here?' And my culture and society is telling me that I'm actually not in a lot of ways - unless I have this amount of money, or I'm in this kind of car and I have this kind of job, or I'm famous, or whatever.”

“When I found out about being cast in 'Spider-Man,' it was like this bubble developed around me. I was floating in it for a while. And then, suddenly, it evaporated, and I was like, 'Well, I'm just an actor. I don't get to actually be Spider-Man.'”

“I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.”

“I was a monkey child. I was like a clown.”

“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 don't believe anyone is ugly.”

“I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; 'celebrity' is a pretty disgusting word. It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.”

“Everyone has made themselves into a commodity with Facebook, Twitter - with all of these things, you're commodifying your life every time you post an Instagram picture.”

“I was brought up on American films.”

“I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.”

“I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.”

“We're always serving something, even if we're not aware of it. We're usually serving capitalism.”