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.
Andrew GarfieldMy parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
Andrew GarfieldI've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even betterโwe'd have interracial bisexuality!
Andrew GarfieldWhen 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 GarfieldI 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 GarfieldIf 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.
Andrew GarfieldSpider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.
Andrew GarfieldI 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 GarfieldI will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine.
Andrew GarfieldI do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.
Andrew GarfieldI hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.
Andrew GarfieldAs an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
Andrew GarfieldIn 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 GarfieldOne of the amazing things about Spider-Man is that you donโt see skin colour when heโs in the suit. You donโt see any religious beliefs. A hero is a hero, whether youโre a man, woman, gay, lesbian, straight, black, white or red all over โ it doesnโt matter.
Andrew GarfieldFamous 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 GarfieldI think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.
Andrew GarfieldAs 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 GarfieldObviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons โ for money, or for fame. I hope I won't ever do that. I don't feel at home in L.A., I feel like I'm on holiday. It's nice to dip your feet in occasionally, but I think it's probably quite unhealthy to spend too much time there at once.
Andrew GarfieldObviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question about the nature of these comic book characters and the nature of this particular character, and whether sexuality, race, any of those things makes any difference to the character of Peter Parker.
Andrew GarfieldI'm right next to two beautiful women right now, so I'm going to sit right back down.
Andrew GarfieldI 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 GarfieldObviously 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.
Andrew GarfieldAmerica 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 GarfieldI believe that doing movies like this is positive because they can inspire and be entertaining.
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