Adam Driver Quotes
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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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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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.
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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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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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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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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
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You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
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What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
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I have this really big face.
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I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
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Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.