I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYKids 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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I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.
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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 like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
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I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities.
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The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.
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I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux.
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I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?
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When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‘Sexiest Man Alive,’ I’m honestly going, ‘Thank you. Right on.’ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‘Does this make me less talented of an actor?’
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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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I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
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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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