Top 100 Mcconaughey's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#3. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#4. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#6. 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.'
Matthew McConaughey
#7. There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
Matthew McConaughey
#8. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#9. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#10. Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.
Cary Fukunaga
#12. I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
Matthew McConaughey
#14. There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.
Matthew McConaughey
#15. A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.
Matthew McConaughey
#16. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#17. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#18. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#19. I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
Matthew McConaughey
#20. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#21. I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
Matthew McConaughey
#22. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#23. Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
Matthew McConaughey
#24. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#25. I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.
Matthew McConaughey
#27. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#28. I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.
Matthew McConaughey
#29. I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?
Matthew McConaughey
#30. That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
Matthew McConaughey
#32. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#33. The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.
Matthew McConaughey
#34. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#35. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#36. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#37. When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'
Matthew McConaughey
#38. It's nice when they notice the deep voice from across the house, and they know it's papa. They know it's Dad.
Matthew McConaughey
#39. Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
Matthew McConaughey
#40. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#42. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.
Matthew McConaughey
#43. I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.
Matthew McConaughey
#45. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#46. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#47. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#48. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#49. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#50. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#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.
Matthew McConaughey
#53. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#54. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#57. I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'
Matthew McConaughey
#58. I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.
Matthew McConaughey
#60. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#63. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#64. I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me.
Matthew McConaughey
#65. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#66. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#67. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#70. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#72. There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
Matthew McConaughey
#75. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#76. Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
Matthew McConaughey
#77. I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.
Matthew McConaughey
#78. I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.
Matthew McConaughey
#79. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#80. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#82. My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
Matthew McConaughey
#83. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#84. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#85. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#86. 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
#87. 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.'
Matthew McConaughey
#88. There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.
Matthew McConaughey
#90. My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.
Matthew McConaughey
#91. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#92. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#93. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#94. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#95. A genius could be anybody that he wants, but ingenious is always one person at that time.
Matthew McConaughey
#96. If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it's more fun.
Matthew McConaughey
#97. When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
Matthew McConaughey
#98. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#100. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
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