Matthew McConaughey Quotes
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My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.
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I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.
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I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.
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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. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
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I've got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I've got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
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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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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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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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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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.'
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Without exercise, I don't feel like my head works right.
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The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.
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A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.
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I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
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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.
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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.
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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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See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.
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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 like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
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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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I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
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Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.