Dylan McDermott Quotes

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.
Dylan McDermott

Change, Time, Yourself

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.
Dylan McDermott

Hard, Enjoy, Why

'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.
Dylan McDermott

Change, Dark, Crime

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'
Dylan McDermott

Good, Cool, Sorry

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.
Dylan McDermott

Life, Same, Acting

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.
Dylan McDermott

Work, Vision, Genius

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.
Dylan McDermott

Him, Able, Movie

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.
Dylan McDermott

Why, Afraid, Stuff

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.
Dylan McDermott

Between, Style, Guess

I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.
Dylan McDermott

Mean, Rather, Actor

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.
Dylan McDermott

War, Down, Thought

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.
Dylan McDermott

Movies, Cops, Fascinated

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.
Dylan McDermott

Time, Good, Movies

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.
Dylan McDermott

Car, End, Father

It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.
Dylan McDermott

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.
Dylan McDermott

History, Successful, Film

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.
Dylan McDermott

Different, Big, Place

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.
Dylan McDermott

Everything, Between, Media

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.
Dylan McDermott

Someone, Around, Acting

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
Dylan McDermott

Time, Trying, Common

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.
Dylan McDermott

Life, Time, Waiting

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.
Dylan McDermott

Good, Cool, Dad

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
Dylan McDermott

Past, Tough, York

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
Dylan McDermott

Theory, Walking, Milk

Never wear plaid.
Dylan McDermott

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: October 26, 1961

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