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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One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.
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I think we've set the bar with respect to the notion that it is possible to provide health care for people. Now I know that the incoming Congress and administration talks about repealing it. But we've set a bar that shows that this can be done. And that core principle is one that the majority of Americans, including supporters of Donald Trump believe in.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.
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My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do.
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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.
