Jeff Daniels Quotes

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.

Jeff Daniels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StoryYouGoNewKindAct

The final product in a play is not just the written word. It's the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it's only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse.

Jesse Kellerman

WorkChangePeoplePerformancePlay

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.

Michael Hastings

LovePassionJobDeepInformation

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Socrates

LiveManHonestPoliticianReally

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

Sigourney Weaver

FeelDoingEasyHardSomething

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

Robert D. Kaplan

YouCountryLooksMapPoorFirst

However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from Nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her. It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us. We must find the way back to her again.

Rudolf Steiner

NatureFeelBackFindTrueWay

To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this is a very old one, that blindness is such a terrible thing that it must be a curse from God for some evil that you committed.

Rosemary Mahoney

GodPeopleMeEvilStupidBlind

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.

Juan Felipe Herrera

PoetryMeTeachersMentorsFountain

I had a few celebrity crushes when I was growing up, including Eddie Kendricks from the Temptations. And I loved Marvin Gaye - I thought he was everything and instantly fell for his voice.

Dianne Reeves

Growing UpVoiceThoughtLovedUp

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

David Zayas

ChallengeMindsetTryingPersonGet

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Claire Foy

PrideKnowPrejudiceSingleLine

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.

Antony Beevor

FutureTimePastLookSecurityMean

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