There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThere are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.
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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 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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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
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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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A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
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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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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 love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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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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You hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
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