Andrew Garfield Quotes

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

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 was brought up on American films.

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

I 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.

I'm right next to two beautiful women right now, so I'm going to sit right back down.

I 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.

Obviously 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.

I 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.

As 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.

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

I 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.