Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.
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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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 like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux.
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I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.
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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‘going’ with this girl, ‘Is this true love?’
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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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Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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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I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
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My rule is to break one sweat a day.
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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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My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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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 like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don’t really know where wittiness is constructive.
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My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself.
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Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
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You hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
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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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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 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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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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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
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When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.
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My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
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