You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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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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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.
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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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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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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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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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The 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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The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
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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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There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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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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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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Vrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
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