Top 18 Dylan McDermott Quotes

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

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.

Never wear plaid.

New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene – the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you’re living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

My theory about actors is we’re all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

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.

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.’

You’d see those movie stars on the screen, and say, ‘I want to be that guy.’

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

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.

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.