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Daily Inspiration Quote by Vince Vaughn

"I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever"

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Vince Vaughn is selling a particular kind of ease: a masculinity that insists it never had to posture. The charm of the quote is how aggressively it downplays itself. "Lucky", "never like a big deal", "just like people" - these are verbal shrug-gestures, meant to signal that social fluency is natural, not engineered. Coming from an actor famous for rapid-fire banter and cocky likability, it reads like an origin story for the Vaughn persona: the guy who walks into a room and talks his way into belonging.

The subtext is a quiet rebuttal to the old script where men and women can't be close without sexual tension. Vaughn frames friendship with women as normal, even boring, and that is the point. By stating explicitly that he had female friends he "wasn't sexual with", he marks himself as emotionally competent while also anticipating skepticism. In Hollywood, where gossip culture turns every interaction into a headline, he draws a boundary: intimacy isn't automatically romance, and comfort isn't automatically conquest.

The "two older sisters" detail does double duty. It's a relatable explanation that avoids sounding like self-help, and it positions him as someone socialized early into listening, negotiating, and being teased into humility. Then comes the kicker: "I can just go up and say whatever". It's disarming, but also a flex - not about dominance, but about permission. The intent isn't to brag about women; it's to brand himself as unthreatened by them, and by extension, unthreatened in general.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Vaughn, Vince. (2026, January 16). I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-lucky-i-always-got-along-with-girls-it-was-99668/

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Vaughn, Vince. "I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-lucky-i-always-got-along-with-girls-it-was-99668/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-lucky-i-always-got-along-with-girls-it-was-99668/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Vince Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) is a Actor from USA.

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