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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.
Matthew McConaughey
It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'
There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that.
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.
Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.
Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, 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.
Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
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, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
Without exercise, I don't feel like my head works right.
Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'
There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.
There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.
To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I'd rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don't wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.
I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.
I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
I don't dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it's gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin' White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It's connected to where you are today.
My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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.
When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive', I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'
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. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different.
For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.
I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.
I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
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.
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.
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.
My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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.
The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.
A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.
I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. 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.
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? 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.
My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.
I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
Life is a series of commas, not periods.
I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, 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.
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. What'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.
Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.
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