Quotes by Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels

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.

Dance

Going Away

Inspirational

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I’m one of those guys.

Actors

Guy

Watches

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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Drama

Unhappy

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.

Hands

Night

Play

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

Cliche

Comedy

Hard

Every actor just wants good writing.

Actors

Want

Writing

Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.

Kids

Stories

World

Give me good writing, and I’ll play it all day.

Giving

Play

Writing

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

Mind

Play

Writing

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.

Guy

New York

People

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Attention

Bipolar

Block

Boards

Cables

Careers

Cells

Cities

Class

Cliche

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Country

Couple

Dance

Daughter

Doe

Dog

Done

Doors

Drama

Dramatic

Dumb

Emotion

Enjoy

Facets

Film

Flaws

Funny

Games

Girl

Giving

Going Away

Gone Away

Guy

Hands

Hard

Humans

Ideas

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Kids

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Quotes by Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I’m one of those guys.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

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.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

Every actor just wants good writing.

Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.

Give me good writing, and I’ll play it all day.

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

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.

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