Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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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I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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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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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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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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Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
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I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.
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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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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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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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Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
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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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