Adam Driver Quotes
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There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
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At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.
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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 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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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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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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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'm not fashionable.
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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 don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
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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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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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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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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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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 was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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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 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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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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Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.