Adam Driver Quotes

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

You just have to play the character.

I'm doing a play at Trafalgar Studios with The Jamie Lloyd Company - 'The Maids' by Jean Genet with Uzo Aduba and Laura Charmichael, directed by Jamie Lloyd. It's one of my favourite plays by one of my favourite playwrights.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

I have done a lot of theater.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

I never played an ingenue.

I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.