When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYVrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
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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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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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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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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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Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.
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I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux.
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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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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’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.
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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 like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities.
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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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Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance.
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My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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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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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.
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Sure, 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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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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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
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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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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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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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To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
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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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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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