Andrew Garfield

Andrew: The actors that excite me and inspire me are not selfish actors, they do it with purpose. They create characters and tell stories with purpose and generosity for an audience. It's all to serve a story and the themes of the story. That's what excites me. I look at Daniel Day-Lewis, the detail of his performances and how lived in they are. He truly experiences every character's reality that he steps into, that inspires me as well. The potential for exploring aspects of yourself that have been covered up for years or aspects of yourself you didn't realize you had. To step into someone else's shoes like Daniel Day-Lewis does so fully or like Robert De Niro does so fully.

Andrew: (on not watching movies that he's in) If I watch myself, then I suddenly have a bunch of things that I'm scared to do. It just upsets me. I've stopped reading reviews, as well. If one is negative, you hold on to that. It was killing me. It was holding me back from being creative and being free. The first thing that was written was, (on the subject of blogs and message boards) "What's up with this kid's eyebrows? He looks like a friggin' Neanderthal."

Andrew: (on filming the scene in 'The Social Network' in which his character, Eduardo Saverin, loses his cool and lashes out both physically and verbally at Mark Zuckerberg, portrayed by co-star Jesse Eisenberg) Are you kidding me? That day and night of shooting was one of my favorite experiences. I was actually proud of myself because I didn't care what I was doing. I was literally not judging myself. And it was so beautiful for a second. I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me. That was probably one of the first times where I didn't care for a second. And it was liberating. I felt more like a man than I've ever felt. That's what always excited me about other people's performances. Abandon.