Adam Driver Quotes

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Adam Driver

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 19, 1983

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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?

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

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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.

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For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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