Adam Driver Quotes
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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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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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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'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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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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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 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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The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
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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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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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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 like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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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 trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
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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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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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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 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.