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" I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process. "

Matthew McConaughey

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" 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. "

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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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" There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part. "

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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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" 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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" My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one. "

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" What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?' "

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" Life is a series of commas, not periods. "

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" I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. 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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" 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. "

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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? 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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" When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time. "

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" Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them. "

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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 a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition. "

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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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" A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another. "

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" 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. "

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" I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill. "

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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 spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?' "

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" My rule is to break one sweat a day. "

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" I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty. "

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" To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is. "

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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 have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. "

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" 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. "

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" We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success. "

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