American - Actor | November 19, 1983 -
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.
Adam Driver
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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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.
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I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
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Writers are so important.
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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.
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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.
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There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
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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.
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People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.
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I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
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