I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star.
I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.
Jeff performed the songs: "Wild Thing" in the 1986 movie Something Wild, "Your'e Still On My Mind" in 2000's Skipped Parts, and "Glory Glory" in 2005's Because of Winn-Dixie.
Jeff's most prominent film role, was as Flap Horton, in James L. Brooks' Terms Of Endearment. He played opposite Debra Winger, as a philandering husband, dealing with his wife's death.
Jeff is a loyal baseball fan who follows the 'Detroit Tigers'. He married his wife on Friday the 13th, because he wore the #13 on his baseball uniform.
Jeff appeared in both the 1978 off-Broadway version of the Fifth of July, and the 1980 Broadway version where he played Jed, the homosexual lover of a parapalegic. The role was created especially for Daniels, by Lanford Wolans.
Jeff wrote, directed, and starred in the comedy Super Sucker, about a door to door vacuum salesman who discovers that his vacuums serve a dual purpose for lonely housewives in 2002.
Jeff played guitar on former Miami Vice television star Don Johnson's album, "Let It Roll".
Jeff did commercials for: Head & Shoulders shampoo in 1981, and Pepto-Bismal in 1982.
Jeff played Anna Paquin's father in the family movie Fly Away Home in 1996. Nine years later he filmed a sex scene with her as his love interest, in The Squid and the Whale.
Jeff is the founder of the Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Michigan.
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