Top 35 Minnie Driver Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I wouldn’t change a thing about what I’ve done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.”

— Minnie Driver

2. “I don’t know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It’s just brutal.”

— Minnie Driver

3. “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.”

— Minnie Driver

4. “I really fancy Harrison Ford. I’ve got to say I think he’s really divine. He’s, like, an older man, I guess, although he’s not really that old, obviously. I don’t want to offend him.”

— Minnie Driver

5. “I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.”

— Minnie Driver

6. “I can’t pass a puppy, a kid or a baby without stopping. It’s really annoying to every boyfriend I’ve ever head. My mother will roll her eyes and go, “God, really?!” But, I find children funny and great, and I love them.”

— Minnie Driver

7. “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.”

— Minnie Driver

8. “You do a James Bond film, you’re being part of an anachronism, a tradition.”

— Minnie Driver

9. “I wouldn’t go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.”

— Minnie Driver

10. “In some movies you feel like you’re a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it’s a more concentrated and quiet experience.”

— Minnie Driver

11. “I live a generally quiet life, as it were.”

— Minnie Driver

12. “I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.”

— Minnie Driver

13. “I don’t know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.”

— Minnie Driver

14. “Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I’m obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.”

— Minnie Driver

15. “Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things – to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.”

— Minnie Driver

16. “I don’t really put my name to anything that I don’t love and believe in, because there’s no point.”

— Minnie Driver

17. “Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting – a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That’s the exception to the rule.”

— Minnie Driver

18. “As a single mum I have to work, so I’m grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.”

— Minnie Driver

19. “Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.”

— Minnie Driver

20. “I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.”

— Minnie Driver

21. “I can set up shop anywhere. I’ve got my oils, I’ve got my yoga mat and I’m good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.”

— Minnie Driver

22. “As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.”

— Minnie Driver

23. “I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films – the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.”

— Minnie Driver

24. “I taught myself how to play guitar – pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.”

— Minnie Driver

25. “I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.”

— Minnie Driver

26. “Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn’t surprise me at all.”

— Minnie Driver

27. “I want a regular pay cheque.”

— Minnie Driver

28. “The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.”

— Minnie Driver

29. “Growing up, I thought I’d have at least five kids.”

— Minnie Driver

30. “I will make time to eat every day. I couldn’t do as much as I do, actually, if I didn’t eat.”

— Minnie Driver

31. “But I love filmmaking – I’m not ashamed of that. You’re sort of vilified if you say that in England.”

— Minnie Driver

32. “I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.”

— Minnie Driver

33. “Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.”

— Minnie Driver

34. “I really believe in the characters I play.”

— Minnie Driver

35. “Never underestimate the stories people tell themselves about how much better someone else’s life is.”

— Minnie Driver