I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’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 have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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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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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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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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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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I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.
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Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever 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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Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
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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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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‘going’ with this girl, ‘Is this true love?’
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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 think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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