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I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
Adam Driver Quotes: I trained myself, whenever I
I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.
Adam Driver Quotes: I'm not such a big
Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting ... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
Adam Driver Quotes: Any actor is happy to
The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
Adam Driver Quotes: The first job I got
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
Adam Driver Quotes: I auditioned in Chicago for
I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
Adam Driver Quotes: I've got weird conflicting feelings
I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.
Adam Driver Quotes: I wish I could pull
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.
Adam Driver Quotes: What is a struggle is
I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.
Adam Driver Quotes: I always think back to
I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
Adam Driver Quotes: I don't feel like I
There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
Adam Driver Quotes: There's something really exciting about
I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.
Adam Driver Quotes: I loved being in the
I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
Adam Driver Quotes: I feel like I'll never
Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
Adam Driver Quotes: Something I learned in the
It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
Adam Driver Quotes: It was very clear to
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.
Adam Driver Quotes: I used to eat a
I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc ... but at the same time, when I work on projects that are substantially bigger, in a way they do feel small. Even though the catering is way better and we actually have someone shooting with real film ... The budgets are bigger but the story still feels small, like an indie film.
Adam Driver Quotes: I think people are willing
Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
Adam Driver Quotes: Even on your hiatus, you
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
Adam Driver Quotes: I own a guitar, a
Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
Adam Driver Quotes: Acting, believe it or not,
What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.
Adam Driver Quotes: What is important is to
I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
Adam Driver Quotes: I was in a mountain
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.
Adam Driver Quotes: You always read stories of
We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
Adam Driver Quotes: We don't understand why we're
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.
Adam Driver Quotes: I think some of my
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
Adam Driver Quotes: In the military, you learn
I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
Adam Driver Quotes: I originally passed on 'Girls'
I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
Adam Driver Quotes: I can tell more about
I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
Adam Driver Quotes: I feel like I have
I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story ...
Adam Driver Quotes: I think it's possible to
I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
Adam Driver Quotes: I was born in California.
I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
Adam Driver Quotes: I'm one of those crazy
I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
Adam Driver Quotes: I don't really have foresight
I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.
Adam Driver Quotes: I was living in a
I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
Adam Driver Quotes: I actually run a non-profit
People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.
Adam Driver Quotes: People always are desperate to
I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
Adam Driver Quotes: I'm not an acting monk
Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.
Adam Driver Quotes: Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about
I'm like a sight gag.
Adam Driver Quotes: I'm like a sight gag.
I think it's good to live an artful life.
Adam Driver Quotes: I think it's good to
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
Adam Driver Quotes: My grandpa was in the
I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
Adam Driver Quotes: I'm constantly thinking about the
The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
Adam Driver Quotes: The military community in particular,
Writers are so important.
Adam Driver Quotes: Writers are so important.
There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
Adam Driver Quotes: There were definitely dark nights
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.
Adam Driver Quotes: Just being in the military,
Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
Adam Driver Quotes: Interesting things always come from
I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
Adam Driver Quotes: I never played sports or
For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
Adam Driver Quotes: For me, becoming a man
When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
Adam Driver Quotes: When you get out of
The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
Adam Driver Quotes: The Marine Corps is some
With 'Girls' ... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
Adam Driver Quotes: With 'Girls' ... I feel
I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
Adam Driver Quotes: I don't understand technology, and
You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.
Adam Driver Quotes: You have to be forward-moving
September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
Adam Driver Quotes: September 11 happened, and all
When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
Adam Driver Quotes: When I read for 'Girls,'
If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
Adam Driver Quotes: If there's one organization in
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
Adam Driver Quotes: Acting, to me, has been
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.
Adam Driver Quotes: Acting is a business and
I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
Adam Driver Quotes: I want to show that
When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
Adam Driver Quotes: When I happened to get
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.
Adam Driver Quotes: There's such an emphasis on
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
Adam Driver Quotes: Acting is really about having
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