I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‘going’ with this girl, ‘Is this true love?’
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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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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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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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 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 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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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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I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
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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’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.
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My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself.
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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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