Jeff Daniels Quotes

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• Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.
• Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?
• And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.
• 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…
• I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.
• 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…
• I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family
• 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.
• 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…
• I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star.
• 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…
• 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.
• Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.
• You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to…
• One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
• Every actor just wants good writing.

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