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.

Adam Driver

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

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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.

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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."

Adam Driver

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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.

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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

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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 have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

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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 feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

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I used to eat a whole chicken every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It’s a mess.

Adam Driver

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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.

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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.

Adam Driver

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

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

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

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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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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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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

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

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