Adam Driver Quotes, Team Quotes, Marine Quotes

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.

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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

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Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

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Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

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

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

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

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The only thing I know that makes me feel comfortable is to know as much as I can. Not like what the shots are going to be, but knowing enough about my character that I can forget those things. And more specifically, my lines. I have to know my lines. I have to know something really well, so I can forget it when we're doing it. And there is comfort in knowing, "Okay, there's not another stone that I could have overturned."

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

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

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What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.

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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

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