You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThere are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
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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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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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Or people say, ‘Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.’ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.
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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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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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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.
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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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I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.
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We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.
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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
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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 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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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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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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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I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
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I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that.
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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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Water’s never clumsy.
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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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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.
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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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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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