Jeff Daniels
Jeff Daniels
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Danielsis an American actor, musician, and playwright, whose career includes roles in films, stage productions and on television, for which he has won an Emmy Award and received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Tony Award nominations...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 February 1955
CityAthens, GA
drama unhappy add
Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?
comedy family trying
It is what it is. He's trying to make a big family comedy. The characters, even if they're big and broad, don't know they're big and broad.
best hopefully perfect reality
That isn't the reality, I know, but that's how I approached it: I'm not perfect but here's the best I can do. And hopefully I did the right thing.
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It's like a second Christmas. I'm not sure I deserve it.
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There's a lot of pain, there's a lot of truth, there's a lot of tragic behavior (in Berkman), but he's also funny,
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I moved to Michigan in 1986 after 10 years in New York, ... Whatever star I had was rising (at the time), but Kathleen and I made the decision that family would come first and career second. We stuck to it. That means I was on airplanes; that means I didn't do movies back to back to back; that means I lived in a part of the country that is unglamorous. I wasn't around to go to other people's premieres. I was not in L.A. or Hollywood. I was in Michigan.
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Fred is my Chow/Shepherd and you can certainly sit down with Fred and Fred doesn't care about what just happened on the phone.
thinking phones cells
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
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I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.
jobs ideas actors
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
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I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.
thinking style acting
I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
thinking actors roles
The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.
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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.