Adam Driver Quotes
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.
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I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.
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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Writers are so important.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
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I studied Morse code.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.