Adam Driver Quotes

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you'd never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It's an interesting test for an actor.

Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.

If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'

Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that exist in a book - whom people love and have a specific idea of who they are, and you kind of have to work with that - or people that you can take a completely fresh look at.

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.