Words matter. These are the best Andrew Garfield Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.
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’d much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.
I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss – but the arts are vital. If you see Mark Rylance perform Shakespeare at the Globe, you know it’s a spiritual act.
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.
That’s all I want, to keep losing myself.
We’re always serving something, even if we’re not aware of it. We’re usually serving capitalism.
I was brought up on American films.
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 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.’
If I can keep losing myself – and finding parts of myself – in other people’s writing and direction, then that’s all I can really ask for. That’s all I want, to keep losing myself.
I was a monkey child. I was like a clown.
I hope that I’m always struggling, really. You develop when you’re struggling. When you’re struggling, you get stronger.
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.
As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
We’re all one thing, and we’re all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.
Donald Trump is a lost soul wandering this Earth. He’s been led down the Willy Loman path and believes his own hype. He’s serving his little self and his little ego; otherwise, why would he need to overcompensate so much?
I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it.
In film, there’s this kind of constant fear that you’re going to be doing too much. That may be an unfounded fear because I love sizable performances on film, especially when they’re by performers who push the boundaries of what people deem the right kind of size.
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 just think I’ve always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I’ve always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren’t always great.
Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.
I don’t believe anyone is ugly.
It’s much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.
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.
