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
corporate
He's so overmatched. He's just a corporate guy,
kids world stories
Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.
teeth film theater
I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.
thinking phones cells
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
couple kids soldier
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.
comedy cliche hard
Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
writing play mind
I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.
years television lasts
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
dog kids guy
I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.
dance going-away trying
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.
careers bipolar facets
I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.
country art class
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.
stars pressure actors
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.
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.