List of Jeff Daniels Quotes

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.

I Love Living In Michigan, Which Has Been Great For My Kids And My Family.

I Also Write Plays, So I Understand The Writers Mind, And How Obsessed You Can Get Writing.

I Was Haunted By Trainers Going "up, Up, Up, Get Up." You Find Yourself Picking Your Head Up And Then Realizing, They Aren't Talking To Me.

There's Not A Single Job In This Town. There's Nothin', Nada, Zip. Unless You Wanna Workforty Hours A Week.

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.

I Know I'm Not Bipolar Or Schizophrenic, But This Career Allows You To Explore, To Take Some Facets Of Yourself And Spin It.

And The Actors Tend Not To Want To Watch Themselves Very Often. I'm One Of Those Guys.

Every Actor Just Wants Good Writing.

On Cable Now, The Writer Is King. Any Actor Chases That.

I Think It's A Style Of Acting That You Trust. You Trust The Instincts.

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.