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Matthew Raymond Dillon is an American actor and film director. He made his feature film debut in Over the Edge and established himself as a teen idol by starring in the films My Bodyguard , Little Darlings , Tex , Rumble Fish , The Outsiders and The Flamingo Kid . From the late 1980s onward, Dillon achieved further success, starring in Drugstore Cowboy , Singles , The Saint of Fort Washington , To Die For , Beautiful Girls , In & Out , There's Something About Mary , and Wild Things . In a 1991 article, famed movie critic Roger Ebert referred to him as the best actor within his age group, along with Sean Penn.In the 2000s, he made his directing debut with City of Ghosts and went on to star in the films Factotum , You, Me and Dupree , Nothing but the Truth , Sunlight Jr. and The House That Jack Built . For Crash , he won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He had earlier been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for narrating Jack Kerouac's On the Road. In 2015, he starred in the first season of the FOX television series Wayward Pines, for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. February 1964
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Famous Matt Dillon Quotes

“I think in the future I'd like to be a little more prolific than I have been. The big dilemma, though, is when you say you want to do more stuff, what stuff do you do? Where are your standards? Fortunately for me, I think the parts get a little better as I get older.”

Matt Dillon

Martha Southgate (April 25, 1991) "Matt Dillon grows up and doesn't balk at talk", The Toronto Star, p. C8.

“I don't like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery.”

Matt Dillon

Terry Lawson (May 28, 2003) "Dillon's Cambodia Vacation Pays Off - Actor Turns Director to Tell a Story of Beauty With an Air of Mystery", Detroit Free Press, p. 1C.

“It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.”

Matt Dillon

Duane Dudek (October 12, 1995) "The Development of an Actor", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, p. 1.

“Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing.”

Matt Dillon

Hillary Jackson (April 7, 2001) "Dillon's new direction", The Gold Coast Bulletin, p. W16.

“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.”

Matt Dillon

Andy Dougan (August 24, 2006) "Matt hears the sound of wedding bells" Evening Times.

“As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.”

Matt Dillon

Justine Elias (April 26, 2003) "A seldom used welcome Matt", The Gold Coast Bulletin, p. 076.

Matt Dillon Quotes about people

“I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.”

Matt Dillon

Terry Lawson (October 1, 1995) "Matter of Maturation? - Actor Swapping Rebellion for Responsibility in Recent Roles", Dayton Daily News, p. 1C.

“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.”

Matt Dillon

Bobby Rockel (May 2, 1997) "Best Is Yet to Come, Says Actor Matt Dillon", The Daily Oklahoman, p. 7.

“The growing pains of … being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.”

Matt Dillon

Bill Muller (June 24, 2005) "Dillon Bucks Wayward-Youth Roles", The Arizona Republic, p. P3.

Matt Dillon Quotes

“When I went to the Crash premiere I left before they showed the scene of me pulling over Thandie Newton in the car. It was too disturbing. It's a character up there, but I still see me.”

Matt Dillon

Dennis Hamill, New York Daily News (February 25, 2006) "Worth taking the risk", The Buffalo News, p. M09.

Cars

“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.”

Matt Dillon

Michael Blowen (November 3, 1983) "Matt Dillon Meets Fame ....Diffidently", The Boston Globe.

Travel , Home , Time , Childhood

“I like to try different things. A good strong character and a good story are the key things for me when I'm considering a script. But I don't want to do the same kinds of things over and over. I like to challenge myself and do projects that dare to push the limits.”

Matt Dillon

Dennis King (January 12, 1990) "Matt Dillon - This Era's James Dean - 'Drugstore Cowboy' Star Takes Critics' Award, Speculation About Oscar Nomination in Stride", Tulsa World, p. C1.

Strong

“The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.”

Matt Dillon

Ruthe Stein, Carla Meyer (May 4, 2003) "Matt Dillon takes charge on 'City' - He got to know Cambodia to direct first film", San Francisco Chronicle, p. O1.

“I don't pride myself on being self-educated because I don't like to brag about the fact that I'm a high school dropout. My school wasn't prepared to have somebody leave for three months out of the year to be in a movie. Graduating wasn't in the cards in a conventional sense if I was going to continue acting. I could get my GED, or could I? I'd have to study up for that.”

Matt Dillon

Ruthe Stein (April 25, 2006) "Matt Dillon dishes on 'Factotum's' private parts", San Francisco Chronicle, p. D1.

Education , School , Sense , Study

“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.”

Matt Dillon

Betsy Pickle (June 1, 1997) "Redefining Himself, On and Off-Camera", The Knoxville News-Sentinel, p. T4.

School , Thinking

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