Adam Driver Quotes

For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

I've locked myself in my room and wanted to be on my own a lot in my career, but I don't do that anymore.

I'm just at home all the time wearing jogging pants.

I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there's the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It's vacant space. I'm thinking about the laundry.

That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.'

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.