Matt Dillon Quotes

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I love comedy, and I always wanted to go that way, but I felt so passionate about drama.

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.

Improv is mostly what I've studied.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I played comedies and dramas.

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

I like making people laugh, so drama was never a big leap for me.