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Adam Driver Quotes

I think everybody, in every job, wants validation.

– Adam Driver

My job is to be a spy – to be in public and live life and have experience. But, when you feel like you’re the focus, it’s really hard to do that.

– Adam Driver

I had a come-to-Jesus moment. There was a training accident with white phosphorous where we very easily could have died. After that happened I thought, The two things I really want to do are smoke cigarettes and be an actor.

– Adam Driver

On his time in the military.

I was raised in a Baptist church in the midwest. Religion was part of my upbringing.

– Adam Driver

We’re not going to live forever, so we have to make the most of the time we have. I’m getting very saccharine, but you can’t take anything for granted.

– Adam Driver

I have been told before that I have an unusual face. But my face is my face. I had a whole life before acting, over the years. Lots of things have been said about my face.

– Adam Driver

I don’t think of myself as a celebrity. There are things about being known for your work that are good and there are things that are bad, so I try to keep perspective. I’m surrounded by people who keep things as real as possible.

– Adam Driver

‘This is f***ing bullsh*t.’ I feel that with religion. I feel that with acting. I feel that with marriage. I feel that with being a parent. I’m constantly filled with doubt, regardless of what I’ve accomplished. It doesn’t mean anything. You still don’t know how to do anything, really.

– Adam Driver

I don’t think I could have anticipated how often I’d get recognized because it’s so different for every person. I’m very tall and I look a certain way. I can’t blend into a crowd.

– Adam Driver

I do like to work hard, though. I don’t know if that’s because I’m from the Midwest and was raised with ‘you work from nine-to-five and you come home exhausted.’ But I don’t need work to be any more difficult than it needs to be. I’m always trying to find a way to work more economically.

– Adam Driver

Some facts about me; I’m a husband and a father. It’s in that order though. I’ve been very clear with my son about that, he’s second in everything.

– Adam Driver

Confirming he’s a dad while hosting Saturday Night Live.

He needs to know that I fought for him.

– Adam Driver

Playing Charlie in Marriage Story, on custody battle over his son.

Something I thought about all the time was the things that my dad didn’t do that this guy does in Noah’s movie. The fighting to get custody was moving to me. My dad didn’t do any of this. He didn’t put up a fight. We were living with my grandparents, and that sucked. I mean, they were nice.

– Adam Driver

While shooting Marriage Story.

He was always someone I saw as a rhinoceros, who picked one thing and ran toward it. He can’t see left or right at all, just sees what’s immediately in front of him, and he chases it until he’s exhausted.

– Adam Driver

Of his character in Girls.

I just went totally cold because I knew the scene was coming up where I had to kill Han Solo, and people were, like, hyperventilating when the title came up, and I felt like I had to puke.

– Adam Driver

On being obliged to sit through premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He doesn’t like to watch himself in things.

That’s kind of what the Marine Corps is like. They’ll just keep hitting it until it’s numb. Until you conform.

– Adam Driver

Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.

– Adam Driver

I don’t have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

– Adam Driver

In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

– Adam Driver

I originally passed on ‘Girls’ because I thought TV was evil.

– Adam Driver

I studied Morse code.

– 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 who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they’re doing something very active.

– Adam Driver

It’s hard to kill that father-son bond.

– 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 the stage.

– 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 as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps.

– Adam Driver

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.

– Adam Driver

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.

– Adam Driver

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

– Adam Driver

There’s a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don’t really relate to in my generation.

– Adam Driver

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

– Adam Driver

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