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.
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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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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We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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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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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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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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Water’s never clumsy.
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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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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 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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Vrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
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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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My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself.
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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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