Adam Driver Quotes
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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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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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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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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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I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
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Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
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I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
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My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like a 14-year-old boy, and she makes me stand up straight and wear clean clothes.
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The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.