One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been?
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYMy lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.
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I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.
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The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.
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Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
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Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
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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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My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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I was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
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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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Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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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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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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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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