Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it. |
Everyone's being terribly British and sort of stoic: 'Yes, well OK, we'll walk over here and I'll take my trousers off here, and you'll lie down there and a bit of deep breathing and a breast will come out,' ... It's quite a good way of dealing with the embarrassment of 'Here's where I get naked.' |
I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask. |
I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age. |
I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, ''They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes. |
It's unfortunate that Matt went on 'Oprah.' It seemed like a good forum for him to announce to the world that we were no longer together, which I found fantastically inappropriate. Of course, he was busy declaring his love for me on 'David Letterman' a month previously. |
Minnie is my nickname. Amelia's my real name. I'd love to be an Amelia, but frankly then I think I should be a German woman with a horned hat. |
Nothing is impossible. With the right attitude, you can do anything you want. It's all about choosing to be positive instead of being negative about things. Like I can look at "not working" as being "no one's hiring me and no one will give me a job." Or I can look at "not working" as being "a fantastic vacation." |
People go 'You look a lot like |
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.' |
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. |
Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think. |
The Virgin of Juarez, |
When the time came to begin I was so completely terrified that my legs turned numb |