Andrew Garfield

Actor

1983-08-20

Quotes by Andrew Garfield

• When I found out about being cast in 'Spider-Man,' it was like this bubble developed around me. I was floating in it for a while. And then, suddenly, it evaporated, and I was like, 'Well, I'm just an actor. I don't get to actually be Spider-Man.'

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• I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

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• 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.

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• Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

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• As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

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• 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?

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• My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

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• 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.'

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• Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

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• Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is where I felt soothed, that is where I felt most myself... safest.

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