Top 100 Mcconaughey Quotes
#1. We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.
Emma McLaughlin
#2. Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.
Cary Fukunaga
#3. It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
Michelle Monaghan
#4. Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.
Ian Astbury
#5. I always thought that if you had any real proximity to famous people, that your obsession with famous people, would wane is some way. Like, I wouldn't want to deep google Matthew McConaughey's early relationships for hours before I go to bed. And it's just gotten worse.
Lena Dunham
#6. Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
Matthew McConaughey
#7. 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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#10. There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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#12. 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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#15. 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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#16. As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.
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#18. I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me.
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#19. 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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#22. 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.
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#24. I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.
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#25. I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#33. 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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#34. When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
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#35. 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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#36. A genius could be anybody that he wants, but ingenious is always one person at that time.
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#37. 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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#38. Traveling is a great love of mine. I love South America and Africa. I'm your ultimate backpacker when I'm away. It's just me and my backpack. It's good for getting away from the industry.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.
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#42. I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.
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#43. There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.
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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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#50. 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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#51. Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness of their beings. They just play and it's completely real for them at the time. As an actor, if we do it well, we make you believe.
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#52. 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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#54. 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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#56. 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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#57. Cynicism can be funny. But it's the easy way. You'll forget to enjoy anything. I try to make the evolving choice, the forward-moving, life-giving choice. Just keep living, man.
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#58. Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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.
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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.
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#67. 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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#69. 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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#71. Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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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#74. There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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#75. 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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#76. 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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#79. 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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#80. I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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#81. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
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#82. The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.
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#83. 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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#84. My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.
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#85. I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.
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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. Romantic comedies are built to be light. They're built for a certain buoyancy.
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#94. 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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#95. 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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#97. A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
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#98. 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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#99. Offers dried up after a few years and it was like I had fallen off the radar.
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#100. I had a fan who had a fictional relationship with me. She wrote letters to me and then wrote return letters to herself (from me). In her mind, we were married and had two children. Her parents finally uncovered this delusional life she was living and she got help.
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