I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYYou 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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If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full – a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon’s waning.
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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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I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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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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You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.
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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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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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My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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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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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 was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.
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