Dylan McDermott Quotes
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I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest things to do.
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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.
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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.
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I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.
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The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
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Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We shared the same vision.
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Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.
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When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you.
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Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.
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Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.
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I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.
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Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'
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In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.
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I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.
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I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, or an original vision, rather than a rehash of some other movie.
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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.
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My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
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Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
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Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.
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It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly.
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Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.
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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.
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