Dylan McDermott Quotes
I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
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I'm the original.
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Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.
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The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
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'Never, never!' whispered she. 'What we did had a consecration of its own.'
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Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.
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Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.
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Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
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Before I made it big I worked as a dishwasher, washing dishes in this place called Dishwasher House where people could just come in and do whatever they wanted to the dishes and we had to clean them with our hands till they bled. A lot of struggling actors worked there-Downey Jr., Joaquin Phoenix, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans-and we actually all kind of wish we still did.
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I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.
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I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.
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A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
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I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.
