Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.

— 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…

— Adam Driver

If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

— Adam Driver

I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring -…

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the…

— Adam Driver

I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the…

— Adam Driver

You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming…

— Adam Driver

I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being…

— Adam Driver

Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people…

— Adam Driver

I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was…

— Adam Driver

Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think…

— Adam Driver

At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and…

— Adam Driver

I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and…

— Adam Driver

College wasn't something I saw myself doing.

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you…

— 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

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part.…

— Adam Driver

There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that.…

— 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…

— Adam Driver

My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film,…

— Adam Driver

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

— Adam Driver

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I…

— Adam Driver