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
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Marin is a wonderful place. It feels like such an artists' community. I really feel how people who live here value all types of art.
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It's like a second Christmas. I'm not sure I deserve it.
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Fifteen years old, it's out in the middle of nowhere, it has absolutely no reason to succeed whatsoever, and it's doing really well,
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every rest area, historical mile marker and tourist trap between a grocery store parking lot in Mount Union and a hog farm in the alleged center of the United States.
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He's a well-intentioned guy. He tries to do right by his kids - he considers himself a victim here,
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I did ('Dumb & Dumber') when my career was kind of floundering, ... . . . I knew it was a comedy only 15-year-old boys would like. None of us knew it would explode (into a blockbuster hit) the way it did.
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I've actually been to Tiger Stadium. The kids would love it.
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I love how one man in the press stood up and said, 'Wait a minute, there is something very wrong here,' ... Especially in the last several years, the press has not done that or not been allowed to do that -- take your pick. We don't have McCarthyism today, but history is repeating itself. . . . Money is everything, there is an arrogance of power, people speak up and are demoted. It's a wonderful time for this movie to come out.
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There comes a point when the king comes down off the mountain,
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You know, I live in Michigan, ... I've worked with a lot of guys who make a lot more money than I do and have won awards and all that. I don't brood about it, but it's there, and everybody wishes they were recognized more, appreciated more. So I just kind of took that, poured gasoline on it and lit it. Then I had (Bernard). Then he was there.
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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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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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There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.
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Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.