Quotes from Adam Driver

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

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

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

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

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

I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

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.

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, and check them in.

Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.

The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

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

I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

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.

My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.

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

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

I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

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.

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

I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

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