I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThere are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
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I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
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Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.
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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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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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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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I’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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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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We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.
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I’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.
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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 was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
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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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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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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 always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
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My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself.
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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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Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
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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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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.
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Or people say, ‘Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.’ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.
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