top of page
"Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Celebrity quotes

"As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have."

"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."

"I almost bumped into Alec Baldwin and then turned around and Paris Hilton was standing there. And I was like, 'Look, it's stupid spoiled whore.'"

"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."

"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."

"Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted."

"There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write."

"I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity."

"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
Explore more quotes by Minnie Driver

"I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask."

"But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England."

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

"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.'"

"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."

"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."

"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 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."
bottom of page