Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillonis an American actor and film director...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 February 1964
CityNew Rochelle, NY
creeps absent absent-minded
I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.
wall people enemy
I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
character worry long
I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.
giving advice littles
I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.
hollywood belief conviction
I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.
advice actors too-much
Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.
mean responsibility people
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
pressure actors sensitive
It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.
falling-in-love children kids
I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children. I've felt that need to want to raise a child. It's a creative urge. But you can express that creative urge in other ways.
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.
growing-up home childhood
It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.
drama character play
I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.
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.
pain feel-better frustration
Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.