I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI 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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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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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 will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.
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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.
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I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?
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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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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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To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
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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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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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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When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.
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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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Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.
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I 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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A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
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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 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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When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
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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 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 most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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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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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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