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?
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.
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There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
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I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
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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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You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
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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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My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself.
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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 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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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 whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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I 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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I’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.
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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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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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