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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.

Adam Driver Quotes

American - Actor Born: November 19, 1983

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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. Adam Driver

Interesting, Sick, Always

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

Life, Work, Mystery

There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable. Adam Driver

You, Unpredictable, Where

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

Work, Time, Best

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

There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set. Adam Driver

Focus, Giving, Generosity

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

Life, Friends, Courage

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. Adam Driver

Religion, Parents, Giving

If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military. Adam Driver

Work, Communication

I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation. Adam Driver

Community, Pain, Military

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

Friends, Military, September

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

Time, Military, Think

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

Day, Lunch, Chicken

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. Adam Driver

School, High School, Want

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. Adam Driver

Time, Balance, You

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain. Adam Driver

Character, Brain, You

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

Courage, People, Acting

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. Adam Driver

Love, Life, Sports

When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything. Adam Driver

You, Marine Corps, Feel

People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different. Adam Driver

People, Different, Always

I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person. Adam Driver

Humanity, People, Military

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

Best, Job, People

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's. Adam Driver

Life, Time, Parents

I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli. Adam Driver

Dress, Feel, Up

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. Adam Driver

Television, Movies, Perfect

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

Never, Just, Cable

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