Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance.
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’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.
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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 spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
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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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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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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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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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I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
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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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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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There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps.
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My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
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I 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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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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