There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThere’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYIn 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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYIf you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThe unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‘If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.’ But if it’s open and you’re walkin’ by, feel free to say, ‘Hello.’
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYCameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYWe have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYNow, 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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYGood ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI 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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYMy rule is to break one sweat a day.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYAbsolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.
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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