A biography for Adam Driverhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.”
“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 don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.”
“People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.”
“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.”
“How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?”
“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 trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.”
“Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.”
“I studied Morse code.”
“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.”
“I'm like a sight gag.”
“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.”
“I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.”
“'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.”
“It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”