74 Quotes by Andrew Garfield

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.

I’ve gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

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.

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.

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.

I worked in a Starbucks that wasn't very popular - before the big coffee boom in London. My boss didn't take kindly to my incessant sitting. I was like, 'Look, I've dusted everything, the stockroom is all figured out... I would rather sit now so I have the energy when a customer does come in.'

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

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.