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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYYou 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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I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.
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Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance.
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I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux.
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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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I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
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For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.
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The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
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I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative.
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So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.
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When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.
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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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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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We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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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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