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Dylan McDermott is an American actor born on October 26, 1961. He is known for his outstanding performances in various television series and films, including 'American Horror Story' and 'The Practice'.

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“Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.”

Writing Actors Acting Roles Walking Evidence Starving Flashlights

Author:Dylan McDermott

“Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.”

Thinking World Firsts Running Saws Happened Media Changed Television Debate

Author:Dylan McDermott

“Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.”

Feels Helping Compassion Embrace Distraction Tics Tourettes

Author:Dylan McDermott

“I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.”

Feels Trying Different Sometimes Interest Situation Pops Genre Always Trying Different Genres New Situations

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“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.”

Thinking Doe Actors Television Bad Things

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

People Want Labels

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“It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly.”

Thinking Hard Shows Actors Lost Difficult Tvs Relevant Tv Shows Difficult Things

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“I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest things to do.”

Thinking Important Actors Important Things Currents Hardest Things To Do Relevant Hardest Thing Hardest Thing To Do

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“You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, or an original vision, rather than a rehash of some other movie.”

Ifs Want Ideas Asks Vision Worst Materials Originals Ask Me Derivatives Original Ideas

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“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.”

Hard Term Horror Psychological Damn Damn Good

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“When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you.”

Ifs Way Home Actors Stuff Doubt Environment Judging No Doubt Killers Serials Good Actors Serial Killer Not Judging

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“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.”

Stills Ideas Stuff Baby Devil My Favorite All Time Paranormal Frightening Rosemary

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“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.”

People Behavior Abuse Prison Excuse Behave No Excuses Death Row

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

Heart Character Past Actors Painting My Heart Developing Character Actors

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“Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.”

Sometimes Character Inspiration Sky

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“It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.”

Men Shows Interesting Television Right Now Mad Cables Most Interesting Mad Men Premieres

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“We shared the same vision.”

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“I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.”

Style Crosses Bowie

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“My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.”

Kind Stills Dad My Dad Priorities Hips Atmosphere Pool Fascinated Frank Looking Good Sharks Dean Anything Goes

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“I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.”

Has Beens I Can Hard Able Hell Hard Times Good Movie Bad Movies Brando

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“My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.”

Actors Theory Walking Milk

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“Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'”

Has Beens Father Style Wings Seven Shoes Who I Am Wow Pants Innate

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“The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.”

Age Eras Pairs Jeans Victorian Sexiest Victorian Era Victorian Age

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“In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.”

Inspirational Ends Moments Consciousness Limitation

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“Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.”

Thinking Dark Crime Drama Blue Core Dark Blue

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

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“I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.”

Fascinated Cop Undercover

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“Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.”

Film Successful Television Producers Executives Jerry Film And Television

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“Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.”

People Trying Common Television Lows Common Denominator

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“Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you’re waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.”

Actors Waiting Careers Agents Managers

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“My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.”

Past New York Grew Grew Up Tough Towns Pleasant My Past Connecticut

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“Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.”

Years Comedy Yeah Hardest

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“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.”

People Mind Long Ends Jobs Actors Known Long Time Gutters Reinventing Yourself

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“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 Want Stills Hard Enjoy Violence Scared Deny Unconscious Phenomenon Craziness Being Scared Conundrums

Author:Dylan McDermott

“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.”

People Knows Kind Speak Language Trouble Gay Picks Sorry Honestly Paris Speaks French

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“I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And, I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.”

Way Feels Stills I Can Wanted Felt Acting Expression Needed Defined

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“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.”

World Believe Culture I Believe Vision Genius Instinct Fingers Museums Aesthetic Echoes Pulse Murphy Warhol Pittsburgh

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“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 World Stuff Horror Psychological Curious

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“I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean Running Guy Actors Building Noise Burning Burning Buildings

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“I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.”

Ifs War Felt Vietnam Terrified Vietnam War Ominous Trickle Down

Author:Dylan McDermott

“It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.”

Feels Years Ends Matter Father Five Car Changed Window No Matter What Five Years Five Year Olds Things Have Changed

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“L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.”

Stills Different Bigs Towns Spread Fascinating Diverse Downtown Zuma

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About the Author

Born: October 26, 1961
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 42

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