When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYYou don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.
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You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‘Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?’ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.
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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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Starting 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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My rule is to break one sweat a day.
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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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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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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 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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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 always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
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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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