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Jeff Daniels Quotes

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.

Jeff Daniels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1955

Topics

Vision Service People Night Hands

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Joe Torre

Baseball Negative Statistics Always

I would like to be able to be both a film actor and a stage actor - to be an American actor in the style of a lot the English actors who do films. They are these wonderful actors who can do everything.

John Glover

Style American Actor Everything Film

India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish - and sometimes rats.

Amitava Kumar

Tea Small Fish Royalty Luxury You

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them.

Spike Jonze

Beginning End Portrait You Person

When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as an actor and I think it can take a toll on your ability to act, which I think is scary.

Rory Cochrane

Think Doing You Fall Bad Actor

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Alice Walker

People Enough Hunger Who Other Ever

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Philip K. Dick

Knowledge Science I Am Sorry Know

My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Sylvester Stallone

Life Time Together Yourself My Life

Our greatest theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, recently declared that humans have no more than a hundred years to get off this planet to ensure the survival of our species. And when someone such as he does so, it is with an understanding not just of the science, but of both our tenuous place and our possibility in the universe.

Rick Tumlinson

Science Universe Understanding Place

People think a watch must weigh a lot to be a luxury. But there's no reason why we should add weight to create value. People have to overcome these notions.

Richard Mille

Value People Think Luxury Create

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Richard Dawkins

Lie Wrong Sometimes Always Doctors

For an artist, there's nothing better than working with an orchestra.

Rene Angelil

Better Artist Nothing Orchestra Than