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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.

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Jeff Daniels
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
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You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.
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I would love to [do theater], but there are go-to girls for theater. I am learning that, upon moving to New York and inquiring. There are go-to girls that will get the role any day of the week. It's true. Some people won't even let me audition.
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Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.
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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.
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I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
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Every actor just wants good writing.
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You know, its really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.
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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.
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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.
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And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.
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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.
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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.
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There is no best anything in art.
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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.
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I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.
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Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.
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Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.
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I don't watch dailies. I don't pretend not to read reviews, I just don't. I wait for it to come on the air, just like everybody else.
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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.
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I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
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