Quotes by Adam Driver

About Adam Driver:

Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor of screen, stage and television. He began his career by appearing in several short films, television shows and television films. He made his feature film debut as Walter Lyle in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar (2011). He also had key roles as Samuel Beckwith in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), lothario Lev Shapiro in Frances Ha (2012) and as musician Al Cody in the Coen Brothers' film Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He played aspiring filmmaker Jaime in While We're Young (2014) and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 71st Venice International Film Festival for his role as Jude, a despairing father, in Hungry Hearts (2014). Driver has also performed as a theatre actor in several Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.
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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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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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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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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, j...

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By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, a...

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You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

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I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 1...

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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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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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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

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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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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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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.

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Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front 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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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

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I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.

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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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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

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Just the service aspect of running a nonprofit is so gratifying because it takes the attention off yourself. I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. But it's really designed to focus on yourself, or it can be....

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Author Bio

  • NameAdam Driver
  • DescriptionActor
  • BornNovember 19, 1983
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor