I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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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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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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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’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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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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When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.
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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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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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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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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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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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My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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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.
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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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We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps.
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I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
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I’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.
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The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
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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.
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