Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYMy whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
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The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.
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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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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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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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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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Water’s never clumsy.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.
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Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
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You hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
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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 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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
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I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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