A biography for Minnie Driverhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.”
“My 20s were a completely and utterly different time in my life.”
“But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.”
“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.”
“Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.”
“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.”
“I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.”
“I've always been pretty nomadic.”
“I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.”
“אם הייתי יכולה להרשות לעצמי לגור בלונדון הייתי עושה זאת.”
“לימדתי את עצמי לנגן בגיטרה – די גרוע, אבל ידעתי מספיק על מוזיקה כדי להתחיל להבין את זה.”
“לכל מי שיש לו את הרצון המוזר הזה להיות שחקן כנראה יש לו רצון מוזר לעשות עוד המון דברים יצירתיים – לכתוב, לנגן מוזיקה, לצייר, לבשל.”
“הוליווד מתוארת בצורה סופר זוהרת, אבל כשאני רואה תמונות של שחקניות יורדות מהפסים, זה לא מפתיע אותי בכלל.”
“לא הייתי משנה כלום במה שעשיתי בעבר כי מה שאולי היו בחירות רעות הובילו אותי לרגע הזה.”
“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.”
“Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.”
“I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.”
“I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.”
“I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.”