"The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role."

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Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 25, 2012.

Jeff Daniels

#Thinking Quotes #Roles Quotes #Actors Quotes

“I want the peace in knowing that is wasn't for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.”
“You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.”
“The writer works in a lonely way.”
“The worst scream I have ever heard, by far, is a mother cow on a dairy farm screaming her lungs out day, after day, after day for her stolen baby to be given back to her. And why do they steal babies from their moms? Well, the dairy industry can't have little babies sucking up all that milk that was meant for them. Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.”
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
“I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.”
“I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar.”
“Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.”

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