Jeff Daniels Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away.”
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“I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.”
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“Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.”
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“The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.”
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“We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family”
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“I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.”
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“You know, its really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.”
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“I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.”
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“I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.”
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“I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.”
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“I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.”
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“I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family”
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“I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.”
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“Regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.”
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“I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star.”
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“Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.”
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“Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.”
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“There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.”
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“And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.”
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“Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.”
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“On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.”
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“Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.”
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“Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?”
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“And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.”
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“As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.”
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“I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.”
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“I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.”
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“Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.”
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“Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.”
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