Andrew Garfield Quotes

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

It's easy to forget who you are.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.