I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI 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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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’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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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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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‘going’ with this girl, ‘Is this true love?’
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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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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I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
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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’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.
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I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
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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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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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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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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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