Quotes by Matt Dillon

“I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then its time to worry.”

“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. Thats why perfume became such a popular item.”

“It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.”

“Thirty was so strange for me. Ive really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]”

“Wickedest Town in the West.”

“You can take the car out of the junkyard, but you cant take the junkyard out of the car,”

“There was a bit of a backlash against Francis at that point,”

“Crash.”

“From a Dowling standpoint, whats happened there over the past three years is Dowling just hasnt had the size and the strength and the people up front to compete with what Valleys putting out there,”

“I just dont know how anyone on the western half of the state can compete with them.”

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, Ive found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often its neither: its not romantic and its not funny. So, like, I like a comedy thats biting. Its biting humor or really quirky humor.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

Those are the kinds of roles you can really sink your teeth into. Characters with an edge. When youre playing someone whos sort of seedy, theres less limitation, theres so much space you can travel. Theres room to move in.

Its important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When youre honest about how you can change and grow, and where your weaknesses are, then you open the door for improvement and change.

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.

These are people who havent gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.