Adam Driver Quotes
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Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
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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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If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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I'm not fashionable.
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There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
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Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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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 was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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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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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
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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'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
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I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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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 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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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.