Adam Driver Quotes

"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."

"There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set."

"I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control."

"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."

"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."

"By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in."

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

"It's hard to kill that father-son bond."

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

"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?"

"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."

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

"I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV."

"I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli."

"September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did."

"I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward."

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

"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."

"Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings."

"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."

"I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor."

"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."

"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."

"It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it."

"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."