Predominately best known as a television actor, Dylan McDermott was pretty much the whole leading man... (Learn more)
Top Projects: The Practice, Big Shots, Dark Blue (View All)
"In the movies, I felt I couldn't hit my stride. I was frustrated. I was getting scripts that others had passed on, and there was a reason they were passing. With 'The Practice,' I felt I could go to the next place with my acting and get better movies." - McDermott to USA Today, Oct. 16, 1997
"Instinctively I thought I'd do well in television because I had grown up in front of it. I was a lonely latchkey kid who watched day and night." - McDermott quoted in Parade Magazine, Aug. 15, 1999
"People sometimes ask how I've managed to stay afloat after doing all these movies that haven't done well. I came to realize it's been a blessing that I hadn't been in a big hit too early. So many actors in their 20s are burned out by now." - McDermott to the New York Post, Sept. 14, 1995
"When my mom died, I felt invisible psychologically. So, from that point on, my goal was to be seen. Acting wasn't about making a career choice. It was almost like I had to become an actor to heal that scar." - McDermott quoted in Us Weekly, December 1998
Dylan McDermott on "Home for the Holidays" (1995): "At the dailies one day, I watched the scene between Holly and me in the doorway to her bedroom, when our characters are breaking up. There I was, 33 and in my 12th film, and I finally said 'You know what, THAT'S what I've been after since I started acting when I was a troubled 19-year-old.' Maybe it's only one moment in the film and maybe nobody will see it but me, but for the first time I saw a leading man on the screen when looking at myself." - from Movieline Magazine, December 1995
When his stepmother Eve Ensler miscarried a baby she planned to name Dylan, McDermott changed his first name from Mark to Dylan.
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