Adam Driver famous quotes

04-12-2025

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
-- Adam Driver

#People #Acting #Failing
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.
-- Adam Driver

#Military #Sacrifice #Opportunity
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.
-- Adam Driver

#Responsibility #Marine #People
I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
-- Adam Driver

#Awkward #Red #Bizarre
I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
-- Adam Driver

#Technology #Scared
I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
-- Adam Driver

#Girl #Evil #Tvs
I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
-- Adam Driver

#School #Mean #Play
Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
-- Adam Driver

#School #Acting #Way
I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.
-- Adam Driver

#Thinking #Boys #Space
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.
-- Adam Driver

#Thinking #Rooms #Productive
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.
-- Adam Driver

#Acting #Juilliard #Film
It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
-- Adam Driver

#Actors #Clear #Wanted
Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
-- Adam Driver

#Girl #Actors #Controversial
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.
-- Adam Driver

#Running #Writing #Branches
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.
-- Adam Driver

#Jobs #Marine #People
I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
-- Adam Driver

#California #Six #Indiana
I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
-- Adam Driver

#Hate #Feelings #Problem
Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
-- Adam Driver

#Military #September 11 #September
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.
-- Adam Driver

#Political #Acting #Adjectives
Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.
-- Adam Driver

#Marine #Talking #Feelings
For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
-- Adam Driver

#Communication #Men #Acting
I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
-- Adam Driver

#Acting #Actors #Monk
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.
-- Adam Driver

#Cities #Want #Theater
It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
-- Adam Driver

#Father #Son #Father Son
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.
-- Adam Driver

#Military #Political #Acting
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.
-- Adam Driver

#Lunch #Years #Four
I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
-- Adam Driver

#Tvs

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