I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYSee, ‘A Time to Kill’ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.
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I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance.
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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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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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What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.
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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.
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Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner.
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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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Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.
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Water’s never clumsy.
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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’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
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