Feel Quotes

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

Adam Driver

Tags: Because Thought Girl

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

Adam Driver

Tags: Being Feeling Problem

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

Adam Driver

Tags: About Your Talking

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

Adam Driver

Tags: Sad Would Myself

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

Adam Driver

Tags: Way Myself Through

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

Adam Driver

Tags: Things Big Having

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

Adam Driver

Tags: People About Just

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

Adam Driver

Tags: You Like Your

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

Adam Driver

Tags: You Up How

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

Adam Driver

Tags: Learning Communication Me

Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

Adam Driver

Tags: Me Like Up

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

Adam Driver

Tags: Work Communication Could

I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.

Adam Driver

Tags: Just Really Actor

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

Tags: Like Who Only

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.

Adam Driver

Tags: You People Like

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

Tags: Think Just Go

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

Tags: People Your Something

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.

Adam Driver

Tags: Me Like Up

I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'

Adam Driver

Tags: You Like Who

I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.

Adam Driver

Tags: Time Out Really

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

Tags: Time Like Get