Latest Jeff Daniels Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Jeff Daniels

  Pages

• 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.

  Jeff Daniels

  Girl, New York, Moving

• On indies it's hard to do, but in rehearsals, you make mistakes in rehearsal. It's really hard rehearsing a play or what rehearsal you get on any movie. That's where you get to make your mistakes, and you make big ones. So when you shoot [the movie] or you finally get the play in shape and do it, the mistakes are out of the way. If you're not afraid to make mistakes, then there is no writer's block or actor's block.

  Jeff Daniels

  Mistake, Block, Play

• 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.

  Jeff Daniels

  Air, Waiting, Watches

  "Aaron Sorkin, Alan Poul, and Jeff Daniels Talk THE NEWSROOM Season 2, Responding to Critics, and More at PaleyFest". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. March 4, 2013.

• 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

  Long, Enjoy, Shows

  "Aaron Sorkin, Alan Poul, and Jeff Daniels Talk THE NEWSROOM Season 2, Responding to Critics, and More at PaleyFest". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. March 4, 2013.

• There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away.

  Jeff Daniels

  Art, Gone Away, Phoenix

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.

  Jeff Daniels

  Sports, Daughter, Stupid

  "Jeff Daniels Talks RV". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. April 24, 2006.

• I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.

  Jeff Daniels

  Careers, Bipolar, Facets

  "Jeff Daniels Talks RV". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. April 24, 2006.

• The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

  Jeff Daniels

  Thinking, Roles, Actors

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 25, 2012.

• Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.

  Jeff Daniels

  Stars, Want, Flaws

  "Jeff Daniels: Standing Next to the A-List". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. July 22, 2009.

• There is no best anything in art.

  Jeff Daniels

  Art

  "Jeff Daniels Talks RV". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. April 24, 2006.

• I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

  Jeff Daniels

  Writing, Play, Mind

  "Jeff Daniels Talks RV". movieweb.com. April 24, 2006.