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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYStarting 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 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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You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
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I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.
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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 think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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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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A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.
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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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My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
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The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.
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We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.
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The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‘If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.’ But if it’s open and you’re walkin’ by, feel free to say, ‘Hello.’
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I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
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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 think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
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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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There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.
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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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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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I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
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I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative.
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I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
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