Matt Dillon Quotes
A lot of people say I've missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What's so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I really enjoy the football season.
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I think loads of women have this idea that their life is going to start at some point, once they've busted all these problems of being a woman, once we're thin and we're pretty and we've got all of our clothes and stuff, that's when our life will begin. And you meet people at 48 who are still thinking that, and 58.
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Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.
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The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.
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A lot of people say I've missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What's so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.
