I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThe challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.
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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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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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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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When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.
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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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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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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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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’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.
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Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever 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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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
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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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