We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYRomcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
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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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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’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.
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The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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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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Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
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You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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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 like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
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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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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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I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.
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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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