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.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYWhat’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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I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
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There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.
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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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I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.
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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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I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.
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You 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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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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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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In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.
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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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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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I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
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Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
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