35 Quotes by Garret Dillahunt

No one has a name in ‘The Road.’ Like Cormac McCarthy’s novel from which it’s adapted, ‘The Road’ features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

You’ll see a lot more blood in ‘Saw’ movies or something like that than you will in either of the ‘Last House’ movies. I kind of think it owes more to ‘The Virgin Spring’ which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

It’s kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that’s what we’re supposed to do is play a wide range of characters – or it’s just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

The other day, someone called me this generation’s Bruce Dern – I’d never thought of that, and frankly, I don’t know enough of Bruce Dern’s work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

I’ve always liked stories. I’m always reading, ever since I was a kid. I’ve always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I’ve long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he’s a great actor. He’s my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I’ve never really done anything about it. I’ve done some music on stage, but it’s been a long time. It would be kind of fun.