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?
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.
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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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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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A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
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My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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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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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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Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
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There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps.
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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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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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I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.
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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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I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that.
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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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