Jeff Daniels Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.”

“Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.”

“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.”

“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 that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.”

“I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.”