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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYWe spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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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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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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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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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Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
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Or people say, ‘Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.’ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.
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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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A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
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Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
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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 don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.
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Water’s never clumsy.
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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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What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.
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One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been?
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