Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

- Dermot Mulroney

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

- Dermot Mulroney

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the futu…

- Dermot Mulroney

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

- Dermot Mulroney

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being pre…

- Dermot Mulroney

I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this same area. I have been acting and p…

- Dermot Mulroney

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to th…

- Dermot Mulroney

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

- Dermot Mulroney

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

- Dermot Mulroney