I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’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’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
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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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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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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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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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There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‘Oh, you’re playing yourself.’ I guess it’s kind of a compliment.
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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’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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I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.
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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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There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
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You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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.
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