American - Actor | February 19, 1955 -
You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.
Jeff Daniels
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Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time.
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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.
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Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
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Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.
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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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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.
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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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I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
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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.
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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.
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