Matt Dillon famous quotes

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.
-- Matt Dillon

#Crazy #Thinking #Actors

I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.
-- Matt Dillon

#Drama #Character #Play

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.
-- Matt Dillon

#Thinking #Able #Way

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.
-- Matt Dillon

#Voice #Worry #Hearing

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.
-- Matt Dillon

#Hollywood #Belief #Conviction

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
-- Matt Dillon

#Growth #Important #Able

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
-- Matt Dillon

#Song #Brother #Father

Of course, if you're gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I'm not gonna say no to a good role.
-- Matt Dillon

#Roles

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.
-- Matt Dillon

#Believe #Book #Backyards

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.
-- Matt Dillon

#Creeps #Absent #Absent Minded

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.
-- Matt Dillon

#Say Anything #Way #Starting

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.
-- Matt Dillon

#Thinking #Tangled #People

When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.
-- Matt Dillon

#Girlfriend #Hurt #Lying

I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children. I've felt that need to want to raise a child. It's a creative urge. But you can express that creative urge in other ways.
-- Matt Dillon

#Falling In Love #Children #Kids

The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.
-- Matt Dillon

#Actors #Overseeing

I don't like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery.
-- Matt Dillon

#Obstacles #Mystery #Things Happen

I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.
-- Matt Dillon

#Taken #Thinking #Long

It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.
-- Matt Dillon

#Men #Judging #Trying

I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.
-- Matt Dillon

#Mean #Play #People

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.
-- Matt Dillon

#Growing Up #Home #Childhood

My driving, I've been accused of not being the best, most safest driver.
-- Matt Dillon

#Driving #Being The Best #Drivers

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.
-- Matt Dillon

#Real #Love Is #Messy

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.
-- Matt Dillon

#Jobs #Mean #Actors

It's important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you're honest about how you can change and grow, and where your weaknesses are, then you open the door for improvement and change.
-- Matt Dillon

#Air #Doors #Important

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
-- Matt Dillon

#Mean #Responsibility #People

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.
-- Matt Dillon

#Advice #Actors #Too Much

I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
-- Matt Dillon

#Wall #People #Enemy

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.
-- Matt Dillon

#Saxophone

I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.
-- Matt Dillon

#Giving #Advice #Littles

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.
-- Matt Dillon

#Character #Worry #Long

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
-- Matt Dillon

#Dad #White #Nine

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.
-- Matt Dillon

#Teacher #Magic #Acting

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.
-- Matt Dillon

#Pressure #Actors #Sensitive

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.
-- Matt Dillon

#Contradiction #Holes

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.
-- Matt Dillon

#Buddhist #Cards #Members

I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.
-- Matt Dillon

#Fun #Kids #School

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.
-- Matt Dillon

#Thinking #Great Day #Actors

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.
-- Matt Dillon

#Drama #Character #Stuff

The growing pains of ... being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.
-- Matt Dillon

#Pain #People #Trying

Obviously all religions get corrupted by man. The initial ideas are interesting but once they get organized they seem to become about politics and other things and they get misinterpreted. . . . Have faith but do the work. Live your life right. Dont expect things to happen. Thats why Im put off by magical realism.
-- Matt Dillon

#Men #Ideas #Interesting

Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing.
-- Matt Dillon

#Acting #Looks #Scripts

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.
-- Matt Dillon

#Long #Actors

I think a lot of directors, they come out of film school, they don't know anything about acting. Or they're writers that don't know anything about the process. And I think they're afraid sometimes to talk to actors and be honest with actors.
-- Matt Dillon

#School #Thinking #Acting