There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‘Oh, you’re playing yourself.’ I guess it’s kind of a compliment.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI 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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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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My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
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See, ‘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.
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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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Water’s never clumsy.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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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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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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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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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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I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
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My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.
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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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I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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