Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThere are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‘Oh, you’re playing yourself.’ I guess it’s kind of a compliment.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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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’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 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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I was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
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Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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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 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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Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
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I’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.
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I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux.
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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 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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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