When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
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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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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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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’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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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 rule is to break one sweat a day.
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Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.
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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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I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
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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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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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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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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