I did ('Dumb Dumber') when my career was kind of floundering, ... . . . I knew it was a comedy only 15-year-old boys would like. None of us knew it would explode (into a blockbuster hit) the way it did.
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I moved to Michigan in 1986 after 10 years in New York, ... Whatever star I had was rising (at the time), but Kathleen and I made the decision that family would come first and career second. We stuck to it. That means I was on airplanes that means I didn't do movies back to back to back that means I lived in a part of the country that is unglamorous. I wasn't around to go to other people's premieres. I was not in L. A. or Hollywood. I was in Michigan.Jeff Daniels
Marin is a wonderful place. It feels like such an artists' community. I really feel how people who live here value all types of art.
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every rest area, historical mile marker and tourist trap between a grocery store parking lot in Mount Union and a hog farm in the alleged center of the United States.
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You know, I live in Michigan, ... I've worked with a lot of guys who make a lot more money than I do and have won awards and all that. I don't brood about it, but it's there, and everybody wishes they were recognized more, appreciated more. So I just kind of took that, poured gasoline on it and lit it. Then I had (Bernard). Then he was there.
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It's like a second Christmas. I'm not sure I deserve it.
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