Quotes from Adam Driver

I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

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

Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.

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

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

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.

I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

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

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.

I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.

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

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.

Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like a 14-year-old boy, and she makes me stand up straight and wear clean clothes.

In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.

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

I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

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.

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

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.

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

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