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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’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 have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative.
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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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Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
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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 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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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps.
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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 go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
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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’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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Or people say, ‘Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.’ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.
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When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.
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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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