14 Quotes by Tobey Maguire
- I believe in a higher force that is within me.
- I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.
- I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.
- I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.
- You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.
- There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.
- The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.
- People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.
- If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.
- I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four days in a row of eating them, and I will tell you, I have not eaten many Doritos since.
- If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.
- I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.
- I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?
- I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.
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