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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThere’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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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 go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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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 don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
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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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I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.
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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.
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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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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.
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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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I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.
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Water’s never clumsy.
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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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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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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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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 love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.
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Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.
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My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
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I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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Vrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
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I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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