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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.

Jeff Daniels

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Jeff Daniels
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
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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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Every actor just wants good writing.
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I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
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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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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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And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.
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I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.
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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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On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.
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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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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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Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.
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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 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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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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There is no best anything in art.
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Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.
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Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.
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I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family.
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