Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillonis an American actor and film director...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 February 1964
CityNew Rochelle, NY
thinking tangled people
I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.
school thinking acting
I think a lot of directors, they come out of film school, they don't know anything about acting. Or they're writers that don't know anything about the process. And I think they're afraid sometimes to talk to actors and be honest with actors.
thinking trying way
Well I can tell you that for me generally speaking that I think things that I deal with are all to do with not accepting things, not excepting life on life's terms. My life becomes a lot easier when I'm willing to just accept. I don't have to like circumstances as they are, but I have to accept them and that's where I always seem to get thrown, when I try to will my way instead of accept things the way they are.
taken thinking long
I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.
nice thinking other-worlds
It's really nice to be able to do something that you've never done. I think that's the gift of being an actor because I get to play a cop, a racist cop and I've never done that before. It's nice to inhabit these other worlds especially when you get to work with great actors.
thinking great-day actors
I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.
thinking break-out able
One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.
crazy thinking actors
I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.
ball bunch five games turned
We turned the ball over a bunch the first five games and (Friday) we only turned the ball over once, and it wasn't in our own territory,
against backlash bit francis
There was a bit of a backlash against Francis at that point,
classic sinatra
I wanted to go classic this time, so I thought, 'What would Sinatra do?
compete front happened past people putting size strength three
From a Dowling standpoint, what's happened there over the past three years is Dowling just hasn't had the size and the strength and the people up front to compete with what Valley's putting out there,
best nominated
Certainly, I don't think many making the film would have anticipated I'd end up getting nominated or that it would be nominated for best picture.
became days dying far nobody perfume popular
But when I go really far back in time, to the days when everyone was dying of cholera and syphilis and bubonic plague, I want nothing to do with those periods. I mean, nobody showered. That's why perfume became such a popular item.