Dylan McDermott Quotes

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• The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

  Dylan McDermott

  Jeans, Age, Eras

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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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  Inspiration, Character, Sky

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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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  People, Labels, Want

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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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  Home, Judging, Doubt

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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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Expression, Acting, Way

  "Dylan McDermott Interview DARK BLUE Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2010.

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• 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.

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  New York, Past, Towns

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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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  Heart, Character, Past

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• In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.

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  Inspirational, Consciousness, Moments

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• 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.

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  Father, Years, Car

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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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Thinking, Important, Actors

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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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  Running, Mean, Thinking

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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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Jobs, Long, People

  "'The Campaign's' Dylan McDermott Reveals How He Broke the Ice His First Day on Set" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.

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  Always Trying, Different, Sometimes

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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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  People, Trying, Television

  "Scary Stuff, Kids! Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott Talk American Horror Story!". eclipsemagazine.com. November 1, 2011.

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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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  Dad, Sharks, Priorities

  "In Search Of Dylan McDermott". www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Running, Thinking, Media

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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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  Careers, Waiting, Actors

  "Interview: DARK BLUE Stars Dylan McDermott, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox, and Omari Hardwick". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2009.

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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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  Men, Able

  "'The Campaign's' Dylan McDermott Reveals How He Broke the Ice His First Day on Set" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 10, 2012.

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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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  Successful, Film And Television, Producers

  "Interview: DARK BLUE Stars Dylan McDermott, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox, and Omari Hardwick". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2009.

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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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  Thinking, Tv Shows, Actors

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• I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.

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  Thinking, Doe, Actors

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• People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

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  People, Abuse, Prison

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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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  Baby, Ideas, Devil

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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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  Compassion, Helping, Distraction

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• To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

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  Horror, Psychological, Damn

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