Matt Dillon Quotes

I think playing somebody who's schizophrenic is such a lesson as an actor. It gets you totally out of your comfort zone, because you can't rely on your technique, your external stuff. You've really gotta look inward, in a way.

Matt Dillon

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• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Friendship

• Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Natural

• You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • You
  • Friend
  • Parent

• My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Building

• I wanted to play games in the best way possible, a way that was better than anyone else would have access to. As time went on, it became clear that VR was actually feasible on a large scale at a low cost, and at a quality far beyond what I had been hoping for.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Best
  • Quality

• Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Power
  • Exercise

• While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • School
  • Money
  • Failure

• I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • She
  • Think
  • Sister

• My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Good
  • God
  • School

• Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Complexity
  • Decay
  • Expansion

• I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Common
  • Alzheimer
  • Dementia

• You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

  

  Mahavira
  • Violence

• ...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

  

  Jack London
  • Men
  • Strong

• Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Mind
  • May

• It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...[...]And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.

  

  Larry Wall

• Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death
  • Blow

• Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes into the work later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.

  

  eL Seed
  • Reading
  • Fate
  • Coincidence

• We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Dating

• Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead.

  

  Thorsten Heins
  • Competitors

• I think the great thing about social media is it gives people access to you on a totally personal level that they didn't have before, so it's really important, and it's a great way to get people involved and excited about what you're doing.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• I think playing somebody who's schizophrenic is such a lesson as an actor. It gets you totally out of your comfort zone, because you can't rely on your technique, your external stuff. You've really gotta look inward, in a way.

  

  Matt Dillon