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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThere’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps.
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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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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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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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You hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
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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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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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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 love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.
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I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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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’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.
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We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
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I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
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