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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYMy number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself.
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You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
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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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I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
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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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You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‘Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?’ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.
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I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.
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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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There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps.
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I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
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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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I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.
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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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