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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThe 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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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.
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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’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner.
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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 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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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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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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I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.
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A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.
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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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If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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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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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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