Matt Dillon Quotes

I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There's no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

Follow your own star!

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I think it's important to live your life the way you want to live it. Don't live your life in fear.

I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.

You can become whoever you want to be. You can do what you want to do.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

For me, being a girlboss is about being the boss of your own life. At 26 I still don't know what's happening in my life, but I'm asking, What will make me happy next?

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.