Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
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’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don’t really know where wittiness is constructive.
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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?
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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 go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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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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The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.
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My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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