Jeff Daniels Quotes

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

Jeff Daniels

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• Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Husband

• I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Work
  • Important
  • Friends

• I'm more for the style than the brand. I don't go brand shopping; I go detail shopping.

  

  Usher
  • Style
  • Shopping
  • Brand

• I trust no one totally.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Trust
  • Totally

• I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Love
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Just

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • Style
  • Things

• A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Funny
  • Best

• We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Time
  • Style
  • Library

• Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Trust
  • Never
  • Hippie

• I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Different
  • Think
  • Style

• There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • College
  • Play
  • Style

• I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Professional

• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style
  • Speak
  • Jazz

• I don't trust a lot of journalists.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Trust
  • Lot
  • Journalists

• I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned as much as I possibly could.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Family
  • Me
  • Style

• I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • God
  • Single

• I dress according to the requirement of the film, as a true actor. Off the camera, I'm just me. I have my preferences and my personal style. Before I step out, I look into the mirror just to confirm that my style is intact. Beyond this, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • True
  • Style
  • Mirror

• I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Hope
  • Style
  • Influences

• He understood whatever those hidden mechanisms are that convince people to trust you. I kind of watched him and absorbed what I could from him.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • People
  • Trust

• I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

  

  Martha Plimpton

• Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Special

• I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Style
  • Trust