Zitat des Tages von Jeff Daniels:
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.
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.
Every actor just wants good writing.
I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.
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.
I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.
The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'
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.
I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
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.
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.
Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time.
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.
Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.
You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.
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.
