The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThere aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.
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I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
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I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.
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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself.
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When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
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Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
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You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
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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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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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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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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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Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
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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 go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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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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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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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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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.
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Water’s never clumsy.
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