I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYNow, 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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You hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
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I 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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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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If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full – a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon’s waning.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.
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I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
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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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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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Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance.
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Water’s never clumsy.
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In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.
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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 go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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