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 MCCONAUGHEYSure, 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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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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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.
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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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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 was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner.
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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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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 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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Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance.
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I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
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