Dylan McDermott
Dylan McDermott
Dylan McDermott is an American actor. He is best known for his role as lawyer and law firm head Bobby Donnell on the legal drama series The Practice, which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth26 October 1961
CityWaterbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.
As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.
Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.
As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.
The Schwarzenegger administration should protect our children and not the special interests and get rocket fuel out of drinking water.
I was happy it wasn't about the guy's looks, but about what his struggle is,
New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.
It's a very cool place. It's a great place to shoot, there's character and charm to it.
They wanted me to dress me more in a Sears look. I like good clothes. I justified it by saying my character would have bought them at an outlet store.
With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character.
Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.
To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.