Jeff Daniels quotes and sayings
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
Jeff Daniels quotes
- I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family.
- 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.
- I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
- Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.
- Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
- 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.
- The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'
- 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.
- 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.