Andrew Garfield Professions : Actor Born : August 20, 1983 Browse All Authors Top 49 quotes by Andrew Garfield Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people. ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan. Andrew Garfield scare fans people I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me. Andrew Garfield caring people thinking When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings. Andrew Garfield depressing guitar reality As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid. Andrew Garfield tough-times men kids 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. I was brought up on American films. Andrew Garfield land kids thinking I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few people that I could do it, I had kind of grabbed onto it and dug in my claws in a way that was maybe a bit unhealthy. I allowed myself to get into a headspace where I lived or died by what I achieved in this particular field. Andrew Garfield acting people way I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession. Andrew Garfield autonomy actors remember In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear. Andrew Garfield floating sports school I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose. Andrew Garfield love-story stories thinking I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it. 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've taken a certain path in terms of all that stuff. Andrew Garfield strong taken mean Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man. Andrew Garfield spiders fellow-man men My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings. Andrew Garfield depressing guitar years As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation. Andrew Garfield validation opportunity thinking Peter (Parker) is not that evolved. Peter wants to tell the world he's a good guy: ' Like me, I'm nice.' He's a 19 year-old kid. He's a kid struggling with being misunderstood. We've all been misunderstood. That's universal too. I like being Peter. Andrew Garfield nice struggle kids We are all sacred and we all belong, so, let's just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked. Andrew Garfield top-news This isn’t me showing off. It was a free for all. It was like a royal rumble. It remains one of the best nights of my life. It was this mass sexual awakening. i’m still friends with my four best friends from school and we’ll have a drink at a pub and we’ll have a quiet moment and one of us will be like, ‘Dora’s party…’. Andrew Garfield entertainment 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. Andrew Garfield me always faith people We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time. Andrew Garfield just one-thing different time I was a monkey child. I was like a clown. Andrew Garfield monkey child like clown 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. Andrew Garfield celebrity being want culture Similar Authors Ian Mckellen actor Adhir Kalyan actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actor Bert Lahr actor Alan Arkin actor Alan Alda actor All Authors
