Dylan McDermott

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

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. ”

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar. ”

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

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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

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