Adam Driver Quotes

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

I specifically remember doing the musical 'Sweet Charity' at Stagedoor. I was playing Vittorio Vidal, which is a very funny part, and some other small roles. I couldn't really sing that well, but there were so many fun bits, and I just remember the tremendous adrenaline rush I felt from being onstage and hearing the audience enjoying it.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Actors are very demanding because they have nowhere to hide. If I write a scene, it doesn't turn out very well, I don't ever have to show it to anyone; when you turn the camera on, or when you walk on stage, they have to feel like what's happening is real.

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

I discovered that I love being on stage in high school.

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

Acting is what happens on the way.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.