Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
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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You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
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A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
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A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.
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I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.
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My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
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It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
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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 think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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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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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
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I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.
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My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.
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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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If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
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When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.
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I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.
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I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative.
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I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don’t really know where wittiness is constructive.
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There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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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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