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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go.
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A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
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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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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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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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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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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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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There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
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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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My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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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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You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‘Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?’ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.
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I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.
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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 have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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