My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
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I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
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I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
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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 know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
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It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
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Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
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A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.
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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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When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
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Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.
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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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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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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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My rule is to break one sweat a day.
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I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.
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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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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 last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.
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I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.
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I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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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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Water’s never clumsy.
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