We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYRomcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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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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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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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux.
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When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.
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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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I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?
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I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.
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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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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 try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.
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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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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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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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