The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
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I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
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I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.
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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‘going’ with this girl, ‘Is this true love?’
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I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
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The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.
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Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
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I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
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I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
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I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.
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What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.
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There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.
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I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
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