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Adam Driver Biography

Adam Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. He rose to prominence in the supporting role of Adam Sackler in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017), for which he received three consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren's Profession (2010). In 2011, he returned to Broadway in Man and Boy and made his feature film debut in J. Edgar.

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At the end of whatever we're doing, I always feel like I want to go back and start over again because now I have a better sense of what it is. I feel that with everything. Like, if you're doing like a long run of a play and you're doing it seven shows a week, at the end of it, I want to go back and start from the beginning.

Long, Play, Running, Sense, Shows

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

Actors, Approval, Directors, Paternal, Want

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.

Acting, Direction, Group, Knowing, Marine, Team

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

Acting, Becoming, Communication, Learning, Man, Men

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

Technology, Scared, Understand

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

Acting, School, Theater, Way

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.

Branches, Face, Good, Run, Running, Writing

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.

Days, Ifs, Literally, Rooms, Sit, Thinking

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. "

Character, Comfort, Enough, Knowing, Okay

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

Character, Important, Integrity, Movie, Story

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

Actually, Join, Military, September, September 11, Yeah

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.

Acting, Adjective, Adjectives, Craft, Political

I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

Cities, Want, Theater, Reach, Typically

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

Actor, Actors, Clear, Life, Wanted

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

California, Indiana, Mishawaka, Northern, Towns

I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.

Boys, Luke, Original, Think, Thinking, Two

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

Evil, Girl, Girls, Thought, Tvs

I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc. . . but at the same time, when I work on projects that are substantially bigger, in a way they do feel small. Even though the catering is way better and we actually have someone shooting with real film. . . . The budgets are bigger but the story still feels small, like an indie film.

Real, Character, Thinking, Think, People

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.

Actor, Directors, Eye, Possible, Production, Thinking

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.

Acting, Definitely, Film, Juilliard, Pretty, Train

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