Top 100 Matthew McConaughey Quotes

#1. Try not to make a straight line crooked.

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#2. So, to any of us, whatever those things are, whatever it is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to, and whoever it is we're chasing, to that I say, 'Amen.' To that I say, 'Alright, alright, alright.' To that I say 'just keep living.' Thank you.

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#3. A foolish man ... built his house upon the sand.

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#4. 'Unbelievable' is the stupidest word in the dictionary.

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#5. I don't mind assholes. It's the dork I don't trust. The dork is the one who's trying to be whatever he thinks you want him to be. I trust the asshole cause you know where he's gonna stand.

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#6. I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

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#7. I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me.

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#8. I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

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#9. Life is a series of commas, not periods.

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#10. Wisdom is justified of her children.

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#11. 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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#12. There are three things, to my account, that I need each day. One of them is something to look up to, another is something to look forward to, and another is someone to chase.

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#13. 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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#14. By their fruits ye shall know them.

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#15. Kids will remind you that, even though you've gone down a road 100 times, it's brand new for them - and that's healthy.

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#16. If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it's more fun.

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#17. A genius could be anybody that he wants, but ingenious is always one person at that time.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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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#20. I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

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#21. My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.

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#22. 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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#23. 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.

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#24. I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods - that's where I'm really happy.

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#25. I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't play characters that are celebrities - you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank's blocked.

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

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#27. Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.

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#28. 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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#29. I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

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

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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. I love it. It's silly to say that it is a world of false and stupid people. Sure there are witches and swindlers, but you can meet there many creative, talented and generous persons too. Hollywood is a pleasant place, when you are hip to the game and you enjoy it for what it is really.

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#36. 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.

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#37. They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they're crying they need to do one of the three and they're having trouble doing it. Real simple.

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#38. There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

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#39. The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

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#40. 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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#41. I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

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#42. I never go online on my iPhone. Sometimes I'm tempted but I remind myself and the kids - it's a tool. Use it as a tool. You're not the tool. My iPhone, 85% of the time I'm writing down ideas.

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#43. There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

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#44. 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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#45. The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'

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#46. 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.

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#47. I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

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#48. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

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#49. 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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#50. I'm a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I'm not worried about how I'm perceived. Selfish has always gotten a bad rap. You should do for you.

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#51. 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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#52. I like to customize things. I customized the back of old Lincoln to be my mobile office. I had one of those little laptop desks like in a police car, and I had a cooler in there, so that was my mobile office.

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#53. My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there's some magic trick. There's no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well.

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#54. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

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#55. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

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#59. A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

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

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#61. We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.

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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

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#65. 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.

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

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

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#68. We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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#69. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

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#70. 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.

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#71. 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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#72. No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!

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#73. Yes, it is the Big Easy, home of the shortest hangover on the planet, where libation can greet you on Monday morning with the same smile as it did on Saturday night.

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#74. We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.

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#75. 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.

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#76. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

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#77. You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

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#78. I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman.

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#79. When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

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#80. The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

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#81. The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

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#82. Without exercise, I don't feel like my head works right.

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#83. I like the 'Alive' part. Now I've made it. Wait until you see the roles I could take after this. You're going to see my gut hanging over, plus 22lbs. It'll be a whole new kind of sexy!

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#84. I had a van that I customized so I could basically live out of that while I traveled and then I graduated to an Airstream. I've got three Airstreams now and they're all customized different ways. The good thing about those is there's not enough square footage to blow all your money.

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#85. Don't play an attitude; don't play a guy who's negative. Play a guy who's not trying to sell anybody on anything, he's just saying how it is and if you want to come by what he's thinking, you're welcome. If you do not, then do not.

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#86. Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over ... and they stick to it.

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#87. 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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#88. The older you get, the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, l-i-v-i-n'

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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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.

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#92. Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

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#93. Water's never clumsy.

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#94. Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

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#95. Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

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#96. Bringing a baby into the world is something I've always wanted, and now I'm completely ready for my life to start revolving around another human being.

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

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

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#99. Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.

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

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