Just Keep Going

Jeff Daniels Wants You to Embrace Your Inner Dumb and Dumber

''From slapstick (with Jim Carrey) to Sorkin (The Newsroom) to the stage (Blackbird, now on Broadway, and for which he has received a 2016 Tony nomination), the 61-year-old actor/playwright/guitarist has done it all. His three-step plan? Find a job that doesn't feel like one. Work to get better. Repeat forever.

You Think You Want to Stop. But You Don't Really. Sometimes all I can think is, “God, I wish I were done. All I want to do is sit on my porch in Michigan and play the guitar and not have to do anything, not have to work to get paid.” But financially I am not in that place. And then there's the way I'm wired. When Jim Carrey and I were making the sequel to Dumb and Dumber, I told him that I wanted to retire. And he said, “You can't! You have something that people want. You have a gift. And you have to keep giving it. You are not allowed to stop.”...''

by MICHAEL HAINEY