Dylan McDermott Quotes

I always have felt that I was six years old.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

I never grew up.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

Sometimes I just revert back to Dusty's kid. I'm trying to chase his ghost, and it's a pretty hard ghost to chase.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.

I was born 10 years old.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, "I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again," without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.

The problem is simply this: no one can feel like CEO of his or her life in the presence of the people who toilet trained her and spanked him when he was naughty. We may have become Masters of the Universe, accustomed to giving life and taking it away, casually ordering people into battle or out of their jobs . . . and yet we may still dirty our diapers at the sound of our mommy's whimper or our daddy's growl.

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.

What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.