We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThe male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.
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I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.
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I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
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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 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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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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Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance.
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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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
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If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full – a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon’s waning.
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.
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I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don’t really know where wittiness is constructive.
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