Best Adam Driver Quotes & Sayings

I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad. — Adam Driver

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage. — Adam Driver

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. — Adam Driver

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

Writers are so important. — Adam Driver

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. — Adam Driver

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

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation. — Adam Driver

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

I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights. — Adam Driver

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

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

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

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

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. — Adam Driver

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

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning. — Adam Driver

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

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

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

Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. — Adam Driver

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

Some time later, after Noah had discreetly disappeared, Declan's Volvo glided up, as quiet as the Pig was loud. Ronan said, "Move up, move up" to Blue until she scooted the passenger seat far enough for him to clamber behind it into the backseat. He hurriedly sprawled back in the seat, throwing one jean-covered leg over the top of Adam's and laying his head in a posture of thoughtless abandon. By the time Declan arrived at the driver's side window, Ronan looked as if he had been asleep for days.

"Lucky I was able to get away," Declan said. He peered into the car, eyes passing over Blue and snagging on Ronan in the backseat. His gaze followed his brother's leg to where it rested on top of Adam's, and his expression tightened.

"Thanks, D," Gansey said easily. With no effort, he pushed open the door, forcing Declan back without seeming to. He moved the conversation to the region of the front fender. It became a battle of genial smiles and deliberate hand gestures. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

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

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. — Adam Driver

Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me. — Adam Driver

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

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

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. — Adam Driver

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. — Adam Driver

I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control. — Adam Driver

Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned. He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn't come out of the water alive. Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself. — Adam Beach

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

It's hard to kill that father-son bond. — Adam Driver

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

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