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• I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family.

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

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• 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.

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• Give me good writing, and I’ll play it all day.

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• Every actor just wants good writing.

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• Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

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• 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 got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it’s a film, there are even more people.

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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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• 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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• And 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 way. I’ve always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I’ve always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

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• I’m the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.

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• I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I’ve relied on that, versus image or star.

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• 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.

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Birth:	19th February, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Playwright, Screenwriter

About

Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, USA. He is an American actor, film director, playwright and screenwriter. He received Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor for his performances in The Purple Rose of Cairo, Something Wild, and The Squid and the Whale. His role in other films include: Ragtime, Sweet Hearts Dance, Arachnophobia (won- Saturn Award for Best Actor), Love Hurts, Gettysburg, Speed, 101 Dalmatians, Pleasantville, Chasing Sleep, Escanaba in da Moonlight (also director, writer), Super Sucker (also director, writer), I Witness, The Lookout, Traitor, State of Play, Away We Go, Looper, Steve Jobs, and The Martian. His role in television include: The Crossing (TV film), Cheaters (TV film), The Goodbye Girl (TV film), Sweet Nothing in My Ear (TV film), The Newsroom (TV series, Won- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series- 2013), and Godless (TV series). He received Tony Award nominations for Best Actor for his roles in the plays God of Carnage and Blackbird. Daniels himself has written eight of the theater's plays. He is the founder and current executive director of the Chelsea, Michigan-based Purple Rose Theatre Company. He married his college sweetheart, Kathleen Rosemary Treado. The couple have three children: Benjamin, Lucas, and Nellie.

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