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
kids michigan my-family
I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family
dog talking finding-yourself
I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.
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.
long enjoy shows
I learned a long time ago that the show you're going to see isn't the one you have in your head. As soon as you understand that, you're going to enjoy it a lot more.
guy want watches
And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.
night hands play
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.
thinking style acting
I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
mistake block play
On indies it's hard to do, but in rehearsals, you make mistakes in rehearsal. It's really hard rehearsing a play or what rehearsal you get on any movie. That's where you get to make your mistakes, and you make big ones. So when you shoot [the movie] or you finally get the play in shape and do it, the mistakes are out of the way. If you're not afraid to make mistakes, then there is no writer's block or actor's block.
stars want kind
I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.
jobs doors cities
I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.
two different actors
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.
stories kind projects
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.
kings actors cables
On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.
strange opinion internet
You know, its really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.