Adam Driver Quotes

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• Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

  Adam Driver

  People, Acting, Failing

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• 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

  Years, Lunch, Four

  "Girls’ Adam Driver on Joining the Marines and Playing Lena Dunham’s Boyfriend". Interview with Vanessa Grigoriadis, www.vulture.com. June 15, 2012.

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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.

  Adam Driver

  Military, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Adam Driver

  Thinking, Rooms, Ifs

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• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  Adam Driver

  Awkward, Red, Bizarre

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

  Adam Driver

  Hate, Feelings, Problem

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

  Adam Driver

  Technology, Scared

  "The Accidental Success of Adam Driver". Interview with Alex Morris, www.rollingstone.com. January 20, 2014.

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• At the end of whatever we're doing, I always feel like I want to go back and start over again because now I have a better sense of what it is. I feel that with everything. Like, if you're doing like a long run of a play and you're doing it seven shows a week, at the end of it, I want to go back and start from the beginning.

  Adam Driver

  Running, Play, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• 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

  Boys, Thinking, Space

  "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.

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• The only thing I know that makes me feel comfortable is to know as much as I can. Not like what the shots are going to be, but knowing enough about my character that I can forget those things. And more specifically, my lines. I have to know my lines. I have to know something really well, so I can forget it when we're doing it. And there is comfort in knowing, "Okay, there's not another stone that I could have overturned."

  Adam Driver

  Character, Knowing, Comfort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

  Adam Driver

  Team, Marine, Knowing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Adam Driver

  Political, Acting, Adjectives

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• What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.

  Adam Driver

  Integrity, Character, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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.

  Adam Driver

  Jobs, Marine, People

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• 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, Yeah

  "Adam Driver, boy among girls". Interview with Keely Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2012.

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• It's hard to kill that father-son bond.

  Adam Driver

  Father, Son, Father Son

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• I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc...but at the same time, when I work on projects that are substantially bigger, in a way they do feel small. Even though the catering is way better and we actually have someone shooting with real film.... The budgets are bigger but the story still feels small, like an indie film.

  Adam Driver

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

  Adam Driver

  Directors, Actors, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Adam Driver

  Girl, Evil, Tvs

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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.

  Adam Driver

  Responsibility, Marine, People

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• 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

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

  Adam Driver

  Marine, Talking, Feelings

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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.

  Adam Driver

  Acting, Juilliard, Film

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• 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

  Interview with William Van Meter, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.

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