Jeff Daniels Quotes
I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.
Quotes to Explore
-
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
-
Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
-
There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
-
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
-
During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
-
You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
-
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
-
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
-
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
-
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
-
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
-
My favorite animal is steak.
-
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
-
It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
-
About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
-
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
-
I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
-
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
-
[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.
-
Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
-
Rather than setting yourself a New Year's resolution, why not simply pick a reason for hating yourself for the next 365 days? Takes less time, and it's easier to stick to.
-
Laughter always forgives.
-
There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.
-
I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.
