I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
— Adam Driver
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.
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.
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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.
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.
I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
I'm not fashionable.
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 think it's good to live an artful life.
I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
I studied Morse code.
I have this really big face.
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.
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've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.
Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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.
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.
The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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.'
When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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.
When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
I'm like a sight gag.
I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.
I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
College wasn't something I saw myself doing.
The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
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.
People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.
There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
Writers are so important.
When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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.
I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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.
