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Adam Driver

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 19, 1983

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

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

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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.

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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

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

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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

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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.

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