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
comedy family trying
It is what it is. He's trying to make a big family comedy. The characters, even if they're big and broad, don't know they're big and broad.
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.
plug scary
scary good. Plug into her, and she'll make you better.
kids love tiger
I've actually been to Tiger Stadium. The kids would love it.
alleged center farm grocery historical hog mile mount parking rest store tourist trap union united
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.
awards everybody gasoline guys lit money poured recognized took wishes won worked
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.
care certainly fred happened sit
Fred is my Chow/Shepherd and you can certainly sit down with Fred and Fred doesn't care about what just happened on the phone.
boys career comedy explode knew none
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.
king point
There comes a point when the king comes down off the mountain,
absolutely fifteen middle reason succeed
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,
christmas deserve second sure
It's like a second Christmas. I'm not sure I deserve it.
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.
behavior tragic
There's a lot of pain, there's a lot of truth, there's a lot of tragic behavior (in Berkman), but he's also funny,
considers himself kids tries victim
He's a well-intentioned guy. He tries to do right by his kids - he considers himself a victim here,