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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYWe spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.
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Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.
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I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities.
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I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
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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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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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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’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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I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.
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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.
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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?
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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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There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.
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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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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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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.
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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 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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When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.
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My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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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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I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
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Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
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