Andrew Garfield Quotes

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

To be a part of something like 'Tron,' good God! It doesn't matter how big or small your role is, you're like, 'Yeah, I was in 'Tron.'

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

Somebody saw me on 'Cheers' and thought that I was an actor playing a part as opposed to a guy just doing what he knew. And they gave me 'Night Court.' And by the time they realized I wasn't an actor, I had already signed a five-year contract.

When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn't recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.

I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't.

I wanted to be a dramatic actress. Life doesn't go the way you think it's going to go.

My first paid acting gig in the States was playing a lizard-transforming, shape-shifting witch in 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters', I believe.

I tested against Kaley Cuoco for 'The Big Bang Theory.' Not getting that hurts.

It's every actor's dream to be called the character's name.

I will be seen as a software engineer in 'Betaludu.' My character is totally different from what I have played in the past.

I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.

Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.

In films, maybe I was lost or typecast.

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.