Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels is an American actor, musician and playwright, whose career includes roles in films, stage productions and on television, for which he has won an Emmy Award and received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Tony Award nominations.

Making his film debut in Ragtime (1981), Daniels’s film credits include Terms of Endearment (1983), Arachnophobia (1990), Gettysburg (1993), Speed (1994), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Fly Away Home (1996), Pleasant ville (1998), The Hours (2002), Good Night and Good Luck (2005), The Lookout (2007), Infamous (2009), Looper (2012), Steve Jobs (2015) and The Martian (2015).

Date of birth:
19th February, 1955
"I think it’s a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts."
― Jeff Daniels
Topic(s): Trust
"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."
― Jeff Daniels
Topic(s): Movies
"Meryl Streep’s brilliant, just brilliant. I’ve been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there’s no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she’s riding instincts, she’s riding impulses. And she trusts that."
― Jeff Daniels
Topic(s): Movies
"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."
― Jeff Daniels
Topic(s): Movies
"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."
― Jeff Daniels
Topic(s): Funny
"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."
― Jeff Daniels
Topic(s): Famous

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