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
air waiting watches
I don't watch dailies. I don't pretend not to read reviews, I just don't. I wait for it to come on the air, just like everybody else.
guy want watches
And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.
dog kids guy
I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.
jobs funny-work zips
There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.
new-york play people
The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.
new-york people guy
I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.
art
There is no best anything in art.
girl new-york moving
I would love to [do theater], but there are go-to girls for theater. I am learning that, upon moving to New York and inquiring. There are go-to girls that will get the role any day of the week. It's true. Some people won't even let me audition.
art gone-away phoenix
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.
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.