Matthew Quotes

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

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.

Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

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.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

Offers dried up after a few years and it was like I had fallen off the radar.

I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.

I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.

I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time.

The best education I've had in my life is to travel.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

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.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

The "Dazed" fans are the best! "Dazed" fans never even want an autograph or nothin'.

I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals?

It's nice when they notice the deep voice from across the house, and they know it's papa. They know it's Dad.

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

I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let's forget that right. Let's forget the pleasure you get safely on your range, because it's in the wrong hands in other places.

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.

It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

Everything is so convenient in New York.

Fifteen dollar too beaucoup. Five dollars each... Five dollars is all my mom allows me to spend.

I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for.

I wouldnt be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.

I dont think anyone can get away from high school unscathed.

When you start organizing a person's vitamins in the morning because you love them. "Hey, don't forget to take your vitamin C." That's love.

I get mad when I'm upset, so to prevent myself from doing anything stupid, I force myself to sleep on whatever issue I'm upset about. Almost always, when I've woken up, I feel much better.

My mantra is always, "Take a nap first, Matt! Then think." It's silly, but it works.

I love animals, and not only do I get to help animals in need, I learn a lot too!

Anybody can get from point A to point B, but how you get there, that's the fun part. That's the story. That's when you can really let go and let your uniqueness shine!

Nothing ever turns out the way we expect, good or bad.

Take care of yourselves, and take care of each other.

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.