Latest Matt Dillon Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Matt Dillon

  Mean, Sometimes, Good Job

  Source: film.avclub.com

• If people are reacting to films based on their degree of success or failure, then they're not really looking at the movie. I don't really care about that. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but at least base your opinion on the merit of the work itself.

  Matt Dillon

  People, Care, Opinion

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I think we're all actors. There's this friend of mine who's a great drummer, and he said, "I never thought I'd be a drummer, but I got really good at it. I always feel like I'm an actor playing the drums." His real calling was that he was going to be a magician. That's what he felt like he wanted to do. If you decide to act like a journalist, you'll probably be a better journalist than just being a journalist. What you're doing is, you're taking the executive role and stepping outside yourself so that you're able to make more objective decisions.

  Matt Dillon

  Real, Thinking, Decision

  Source: film.avclub.com

• One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.

  Matt Dillon

  Attention, Film, Pay Attention

  Source: film.avclub.com

• It's really nice to be able to do something that you've never done. I think that's the gift of being an actor because I get to play a cop, a racist cop and I've never done that before. It's nice to inhabit these other worlds especially when you get to work with great actors.

  Matt Dillon

  Nice, Thinking, Other Worlds

  "Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 5, 2005.

• I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And really good storytelling. And when people ask me what the story is, I say it's really several stories really. They're intermeshed.

  Matt Dillon

  Character, Long, People

  "Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 5, 2005.

• Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.

  Matt Dillon

  Pain, Feel Better, Frustration

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Well I can tell you that for me generally speaking that I think things that I deal with are all to do with not accepting things, not excepting life on life's terms. My life becomes a lot easier when I'm willing to just accept. I don't have to like circumstances as they are, but I have to accept them and that's where I always seem to get thrown, when I try to will my way instead of accept things the way they are.

  Matt Dillon

  Thinking, Trying, Way

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• 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

  "Matt Dillon Has a Few Drinks in Factotum". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. August 15, 2006.