When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‘Sexiest Man Alive,’ I’m honestly going, ‘Thank you. Right on.’ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‘Does this make me less talented of an actor?’
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYYou 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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I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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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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I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
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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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My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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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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If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
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A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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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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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