Dylan McDermott Quotes

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

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Romantic, Year

• With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Rather, Trying

• ‘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’m actually going to work on a movie in February, called ‘Mercy,’ from Jason Blum, who produced the ‘Paranormal Activity’ movies, and there is a similar theme to ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ in the movie.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Movies, Work

  Tags in Time

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help, Someone, Understand

• Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that’s sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Money, Work

  Tags in Today

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Tough

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time, Waiting

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

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Trying, Common

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Around, Acting

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything, Between, Media

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Still, Big

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

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in History

  Tags in Successful, Film

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Bad, Mad

• I’ve always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Cops, Fascinated

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Down, Thought

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mean, Rather, Actor

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Why, Afraid

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

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Him, Did, Able

• 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.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Still, Same

• ‘Dark Blue’ is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don’t think that is ever going to change.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Ever, Dark

Dylan McDermott (34)

Birth:	26th October, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Mark Anthony McDermott, better known by his professional name of Dylan McDermott, is an American actor, known for his role as lawyer and law firm head Bobby Donnell on the television legal drama The Practice which earned him a Golden Globe and an Emmy nomination and his role in the series American Horror Story as Dr. Ben Harmon.

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