Adam Driver Quotes
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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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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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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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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 don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
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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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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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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 have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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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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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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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.
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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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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 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 like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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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 don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
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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 have this really big face.