I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?
More Matthew McConaughey Quotes
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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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Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance.
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In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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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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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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There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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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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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.
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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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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