If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYWe dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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 was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
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I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.
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You 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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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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There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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The 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 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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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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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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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Water’s never clumsy.
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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.
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The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
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I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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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I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
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It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
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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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There 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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When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‘Sexiest Man Alive,’ I’m honestly going, ‘Thank you. Right on.’ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‘Does this make me less talented of an actor?’
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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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You hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
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