Matt Dillon Quotes
In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.
Quotes to Explore
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Life is surreal and beautiful.
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It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.
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I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.
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What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.
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If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.
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In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.
