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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Love is the prize in life.
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The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
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American film isn't just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren't the only stories in this vast nation. That's my mandate.
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I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.
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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.
