Adam Driver Quotes
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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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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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
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College wasn't something I saw myself doing.
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I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
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The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
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You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
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Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.
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With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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I think it's good to live an artful life.
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.