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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYIf you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
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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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My rule is to break one sweat a day.
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If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
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My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.
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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 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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Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
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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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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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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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Vrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
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