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?
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYIn 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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI 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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYKids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYYou 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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYRomcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYLife is a series of commas, not periods.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI 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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYNow, 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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYIt’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYWithout exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYMy whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYMy number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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