Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Adam Driver - Page 2

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

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.

I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.

The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

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.

When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

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.

If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

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.

How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.

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.

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?

I'm not fashionable.

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.

Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.

Writers are so important.

I studied Morse code.

Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

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.

With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.

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.'

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.

When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.

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.

I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

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.

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.

The only thing I know that makes me feel comfortable is to know as much as I can. Not like what the shots are going to be, but knowing enough about my character that I can forget those things. And more specifically, my lines. I have to know my lines. I have to know something really well, so I can forget it when we're doing it. And there is comfort in knowing, "Okay, there's not another stone that I could have overturned."

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

At the end of whatever we're doing, I always feel like I want to go back and start over again because now I have a better sense of what it is. I feel that with everything. Like, if you're doing like a long run of a play and you're doing it seven shows a week, at the end of it, I want to go back and start from the beginning.

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.

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.

Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

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.

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.

What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.

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.