Adam Driver Quotes

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Adam Driver

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 19, 1983

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.

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I studied Morse code.

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

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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.

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

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People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.

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Writers are so important.

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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

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