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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.
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When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.
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In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.
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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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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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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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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
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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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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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We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.
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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 best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
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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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You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
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