Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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 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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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.
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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‘going’ with this girl, ‘Is this true love?’
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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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Vrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
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Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
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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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I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.
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When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
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One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been?
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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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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.
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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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We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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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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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 have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative.
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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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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 have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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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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I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux.
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