I was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI 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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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 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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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’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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In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.
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There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
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My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself.
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When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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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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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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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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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
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Vrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
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I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.
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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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My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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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 talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
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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’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’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go.
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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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