Matt Dillon Quotes
The growing pains of … being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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Tribeca Film Festival Doha will promote Middle Eastern themes and filmmakers, but not exclusively. Approximately 40 films will be presented at the new Museum of Islamic Art and in cinemas across Doha. Innovative work by established filmmakers will be shown alongside the debuts of newly discovered directing talents.
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.
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Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.
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The growing pains of … being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.
