Adam Driver Quotes
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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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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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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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The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
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There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
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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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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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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
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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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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 like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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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 trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
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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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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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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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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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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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I have this really big face.