Dillon Quotes

The first miracle Jesus performed was instant winemaking. No wonder people loved Him! He probably received a bunch of wedding invitations after that one. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be. ~ Hugh Dillon

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean. ~ Matt Dillon

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society? ~ Matt Dillon

God's will isn't always written in the sky, but it is clearly written in His Word. ~ Dillon Burroughs

I might be into writing ... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas. ~ Kevin Dillon

Where there's cake, there's hope. ~ Lucy Dillon

Dillon kept his face impassive, his heart just racing. He had him. He knew where Dal was, and he was going to go there and fuck the man sober. And when Dal couldn't walk straight, then they were going to talk. ~ Sean Michael

If I came to your town and asked any person on the street, "Which church should I go to if I want to get involved in helping the poor or homeless in this community?" would your church be the first one mentioned? Make this identity your goal. ~ Dillon Burroughs

I just always loved pinball. ~ Kevin Dillon

Sometimes, life is like that. One moment. One person. One conversation. And your life is forever enriched. ~ Michael Dillon

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable. ~ Matt Dillon

... It's breadth, and the strength between us to know that we're ready for the next step. I want to do it this way so it lasts, and I need you to understand that for me."
"I understand."
"Do you?" Hunter asked him closely. "Then why do I still hear rejection in your voice?"
"Because I'm impulsive, and immature, and ... in love with you. ~ Brandon Shire

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can. ~ Matt Dillon

Gray Donohue was a fierce and hungry beast.His hair was wild,his eyes narrowed,his face contorted into a mask of diabolical intensity.And then that face descended on hers and his mouth claimed her in a ravenous kiss.As his cock worked in and out of her pussy,as his tongue fucked the inside of her mouth,Dillon knew this was something beyond what she was capable of,beyond what her tiny scrap of an unbeating heart could ever hold on to. ~ Laura Wright

To be honest with you, there's nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I've got friends that are actors. They're interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there's a part of me that doesn't like it. ~ Matt Dillon

Don't merely scratch at a problem. Flag it, and then show up at the meeting with ideas on how you can fix whatever is going wrong. Be a problem solver: ~ Karen Dillon

In sharing how God is changing our lives, we find the lives of others changed as well. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I enjoy directing and acting as well. But the bottom line for me is not prestige and power. It's about having an exciting, creative life. ~ Matt Dillon

I'm kind of a homebody. ~ Kevin Dillon

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

You can't forget how important coming together is, whether it be a mom and a son, a dad and a daughter, whether the family be ten people, or twenty people, or a million people. Dinnertime is the perfect time for that. Dinnertime is the perfect time when you can sit down, you can offer thanks to your kids for making you laugh, or to your parents for supporting you, or to a god for looking out for you, or to whomever you want. You can just close your eyes and open them again and realize that you have the opportunity everyday to change your life, or change someone else's. Dinnertime is a great time to think about that.

~ Dillon, age 22
From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012 ~ Deborah L. Halliday

To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves. ~ Dillon Burroughs

The right thing. It's there in the way she says my name. It's music. ~ Melyssa Winchester

Dillon, all you have in this world, really, are your responses to it. Responses to your feelings and responses to what comes in from outside. You know how adults are always trying to get you to take responsibility? That's all responsibility is, responding to the world, owning your responses. It isn't about taking blame or finding out if something's your fault. ~ Chris Crutcher

It's hard to walk down the street without 'Entourage' comments, and that's all nice. ~ Kevin Dillon

Change the world today. Start with the next person you meet. ~ Dillon Burroughs

I take all the negatives and try to turn it into a positive. ~ Corey Dillon

I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead. ~ Kevin Dillon

The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

( ... )"He said we all have this different idea of what love is and that's what makes our circle. The more ideas and misconceptions you throw in, the larger the diameter and the harder it is to connect with someone. We," he said, squeezing Hunter's hand and signaling Margie and everyone around them, "all sit around the edge looking at everyone else around the circle. Sometimes we just settle for the person next to us because it's easy or convenient and we skip our way around its circumference, never really knowing what love is all about."
He took a sip of his Coke and kept his eyes on Margie. "But other times, you see that person across from you, staring back at you, and you fight like hell trying to get across while he does the same. If you're lucky, there's a rope you can toss over and help draw each other in, never looking away, never worrying about those still on the circumference; just you and him, pulling each other in, deeper and deeper." ~ Brandon Shire

Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well. ~ Dillon Burroughs

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously. ~ Dillon Burroughs

There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more. ~ Matt Dillon

It's important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you're honest about how you can change and grow, and where your weaknesses are, then you open the door for improvement and change. ~ Matt Dillon

Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others. ~ Dillon Burroughs

The world tells us to find the power within ourselves. God's Word teaches otherwise. It is the Lord's power that gives the ability to overcome. ~ Dillon Burroughs

May we show great concern to those of great concern to God. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him. ~ Dillon Burroughs

I know why your gift was deaf to me"

~ Dillon ~ Laura Wright

Megan had accustomed herself to receiving the third degree about her dates.
His name is Dillon Carver.He's the same age as me, and also a senior. He has no family history of insanity or premature baldness. He doesn't smoke, drink or do drugs, but he does have a vicious Dr Pepper habit. I'll let you know how big his penis is after the dance. ~ Sara Bell

When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Then I read that Jesus was a friend of sinners. This still bothers me. Not because Jesus was a friend of sinners (because that came in really handy in my case). It bothered me because if I'm trying to live like Jesus, that means I'm supposed to be a friend of sinners too. ~ Dillon Burroughs

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs. ~ Matt Dillon

I love the Discovery Channel, man! ~ Kevin Dillon

Uh...Vampires aren't all that magical," Jamie stated. "It's more like a medical condition with no cure. ~ Karen M. Dillon

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood. ~ Matt Dillon

Luke glanced at me, his expression oddly light. "Shh, pretty girl. Let's enjoy ourselves for a bit before you start riddling again ". ~ Maggie Stiefvater

I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And really good storytelling. And when people ask me what the story is, I say it's really several stories really. They're intermeshed. ~ Matt Dillon

The start of my rookie season when there was so much pressure, so many expectations, and so much excitement surrounding the return of the No. 3 to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and then we went out and won the pole for the Daytona 500. That was a very special moment. ~ Austin Dillon

I'm trying to learn how to listen to people and how not to think that this is all I am. It's not going to change the fact that at home I'm going to put away the clean dishes, and I'm going to have to be nice to my siblings. It encourages me, but it doesn't define me. ~ Bethany Dillon

All i care about is giving you the happy ever after you want. In our own messy, complicated way. ~ Lucy Dillon

God does give times of peace in our Christian lives, but it is not all of the time. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Coach told me once, when I was too busy screwing around to pay attention that the only way he could get through to me, make me hear him was to spell everything out. I wanted you to hear me. ~ Melyssa Winchester

People get really nuts around cars. They get angry at cars, they get angry at their car, they get angry at people driving in cars; there's something really comical about that, about automobiles. ~ Matt Dillon

I've learned how to make a nice souffle, a little mac and cheese. ~ Kevin Dillon

Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies. ~ Dillon Burroughs

I think a lot of directors, they come out of film school, they don't know anything about acting. Or they're writers that don't know anything about the process. And I think they're afraid sometimes to talk to actors and be honest with actors. ~ Matt Dillon

We get caught up in all the stress - 'Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?' - but what about the thing you want to do? That's what'll keep you young. It's empowering, not becoming a prisoner of some other person's idea of what you should be. ~ Matt Dillon

If I was not racing then I would own a ranch where people could come and hunt. It would be fun and laid back every day. ~ Austin Dillon

I think I look pretty decent in a tux. ~ Kevin Dillon

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny. ~ Kevin Dillon

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

I think digital media is a valid tool, one that has it's own strengths and weaknesses. So often I see people dismissing digital art as somehow cheating or not as valid or important as traditional art, but the computer is just another tool. ~ Julie Dillon

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

The first great work (a task performed by few)
Is that yourself may to yourself be true. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

I have a repertoire of songs that I'm proud of, that I've written for my own band. When I do a cover, something that somebody else has written, I think about it very carefully before I sing that song. I have to really get behind it and understand it and like it. And that's how I pick roles. I don't want to play just anything. ~ Hugh Dillon

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

I'm not some sex addict trying to sort myself out. I don't get a high from fucking everything that walks. I get a high from wanting someone as much as I want you. From actually thinking that for once ... for once in my life someone actually cares enough to cry because they think they've messed me up. ~ Charlotte Stein

Kate Moss is too skinny. She also looks like she's 11. It's practically illegal to look at her picture. God bless Kate Dillon, but size 14 is just a little too big. Look at me talking, I just lost 28 pounds, so I should have more sympathy, but I don't. ~ Gary Dell'Abate

I'm very, very lucky to be a working actor, but I've also been careful. I don't just take anything. 'Durham County' came to me. You have to look at the quality of work you do, and 'Durham' set the standard. I wait for things that keep me really interested. ~ Hugh Dillon

Faith is huge and I am a proud Christian. I think it would be difficult to have a career like the one we have without having faith. ~ Austin Dillon

I don't like to get involved in any bashing at all. ~ Kevin Dillon

You own every piece of me, Cadence Taylor, and if you let me, I'll spend the rest of my life proving to you that you're the only thing left worth fighting for. ~ Melyssa Winchester

Treat people like family because they are. ~ Dillon Burroughs

I don't like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery. ~ Matt Dillon

The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

We want to care most about what Jesus cares most about. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Compassion without action is meaningless. ~ Dillon Burroughs

There is no secret formula
only a life committed to a close walk with God. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Children are our connections to all that is. ~ Doug Dillon

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do. ~ Kevin Dillon

Snow is kind of weird," Dillon said. "It's so slow, drifts a little here and there, and it doesn't make much noise," he said as he looked at Hunter. "I think I want to skip the symphony," he added as he untied Hunter's tie and slipped it from around his neck. " I would like very much for us to stay in and see if you can match its rhythm. What do you think? ~ Brandon Shire

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count. ~ Dillon Burroughs

I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun. ~ Matt Dillon

I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free time. Eventually, thanks to the internet, I started noticing that there were such things as art schools, and professional artists, and people making a living doing a variety of types of art. ~ Julie Dillon

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking. ~ Matt Dillon

Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift. ~ Dillon Burroughs

That's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets ~ Maggie Stiefvater

Dreams link us to those who have already left this life. ~ Doug Dillon

I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're not getting what you want, and you're always striving and looking ahead instead of just being in the moment. ~ Matt Dillon

I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history and culture, and I like the serenity of Buddhism there. It's very beautiful. I find that to be a very nice place to visit. ~ Matt Dillon

Let us not see today's troubles as a reason to give up; let us see them as an opportunity for God to deliver. ~ Dillon Burroughs

We weep and laugh, as we see others do. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Obviously all religions get corrupted by man. The initial ideas are interesting but once they get organized they seem to become about politics and other things and they get misinterpreted ... Have faith but do the work. Live your life right. Dont expect things to happen. Thats why Im put off by magical realism. ~ Matt Dillon