Quotes by Dylan McDermott

Dylan McDermott

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.

Jobs

Long

People

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.

People

Thinking

World

Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.

Labels

People

Want

Honestly, I’m cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I’d say, ‘I’m not gay, but it’s all good.’ It’s kind of like going to Paris when you don’t know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I’m just like, ‘Sorry, I don’t speak French.

Gay

Paris

Sorry

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan’s work. Like Andy, Ryan’s finger is so on the pulse of culture that he’s ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

Believe

Echoes

Museums

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn’t going to be able to ‘out-man’ him.

Able

Men

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.

People

Stuff

World

I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary’s Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

Baby

Devil

Ideas

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

Character

Heart

Past

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.

Actors

Doe

Thinking

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Fascinated

Father

Film And Television

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Important

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Jeans

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Quotes by Dylan McDermott

Dylan McDermott

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.

Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.

Honestly, I’m cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I’d say, ‘I’m not gay, but it’s all good.’ It’s kind of like going to Paris when you don’t know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I’m just like, ‘Sorry, I don’t speak French.

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn’t going to be able to ‘out-man’ him.

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.

I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary’s Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.

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