I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYLife is a series of commas, not periods.
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I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
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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 have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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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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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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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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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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 didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.
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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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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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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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If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full – a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon’s waning.
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Water’s never clumsy.
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At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.
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I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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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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Vrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
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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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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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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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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 think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
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A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.
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Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
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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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