Matthew Mcconaughey Quotes

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

New, Will, Though, Brand New

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Through, More, Mentally, Stimulated

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

Work, Like, Appropriate, Formality

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

Over It, Anybody, Named, Clothing

I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.

- Matthew McConaughey

Go, Say, Your, Paparazzi

When I'm surfing, I'm sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

- Matthew McConaughey

Surfing, Upset, Sure, Paparazzi

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Music, Me, Roles, Different Roles

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

- Matthew McConaughey

Man, Genius, Smart Man, Hamburger

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

- Matthew McConaughey

Someone, Another, Actually, Claims

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Cool, Never, Things, Litter

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

- Matthew McConaughey

Love, Hands, Rules, Weed

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

- Matthew McConaughey

Like, Films, Rehearse, Rehearsals

There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

- Matthew McConaughey

Knowing, You, Difference, Champion

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

Mind, People, Dealing, Perceptions

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

- Matthew McConaughey

Feel, Movie, Been, Daniel

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

Own, Some, Everybody, Good Friends

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

- Matthew McConaughey

Down, Before, Filming, Camera

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

- Matthew McConaughey

Been, Mine, Continuously, Good Friend

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

Love, Bad, Profess, Valentine

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

Nature, Like, Read, Wherever

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

Doing, Through, Some, Blackberry

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

Want, Cut, About, Thicker

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

- Matthew McConaughey

Love, Linguistics, I Love, Surprises

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

Door, Living, Shut, Trailer Park

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.

- Matthew McConaughey

Been, Mellow, Couple, Coolest

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

Alive, Matter, Out, Sexiest

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Think, Some, Extent, Attorneys

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

Soul, Celebrity, Going, Anonymity

I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.

- Matthew McConaughey

Life, Long, Least, OK

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

Artist, Own, About, Common Denominator

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

City, Big, Concrete, Backpack

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.

- Matthew McConaughey

Happen, Always, Took, Right Time

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.

- Matthew McConaughey

Been, Your, Half, Half The Time

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

Compete, Other, Those, Faced

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

- Matthew McConaughey

Relationships, Inside, Get, Neighborhood

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.

- Matthew McConaughey

Sports, Drop, Till, Golfer

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

Love, Studio, Films, Eccentric

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Next, Everyone, Whole, Storytellers

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

Irish, Last, Sure, Branches

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

Comedy, Always, Break, Credits

Water's never clumsy.

- Matthew McConaughey

Water, Never, Clumsy

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Work, Go, Raised, Nine-To-Five

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

- Matthew McConaughey

Say, Something, One Thing, My Number One

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.

- Matthew McConaughey

Wife, Handle, Incredible, Great People

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

Dislike, Your, Real Time, Together

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

Thought, Reason, Commas, Conflict

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.

- Matthew McConaughey

Go, Like, Romantic Comedies, Comedies

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.

- Matthew McConaughey

Big, Making, Made, Starting

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

Wait, Always, Looked, Starting

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Lunch, Going, About, So Much Time

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Writing, Want, Phone, Filmmaker

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

Love, Play, Very, Los Angeles

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Daily, Go, Beast, Websites

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Beautiful, Most, Ever, Beautiful Places

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

Think, Cynicism, I Think, Constructive

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

- Matthew McConaughey

Love, I Remember, Going, True Love

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

- Matthew McConaughey

Bed, Same, Image, Nights

Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

- Matthew McConaughey

Church, Through, Almost, Real Life

Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.

- Matthew McConaughey

Guns, Cameras, Really, Hurt

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

- Matthew McConaughey

Bachelor, Been, Could, Catch

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

- Matthew McConaughey

Process, Hands, Having, Clay

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

Big, Everyone, Putting, Appetite

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Work, Know, How, Skill

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

Art, Say, More, Judging

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

- Matthew McConaughey

Road, My Life, Need, Moving

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

- Matthew McConaughey

Life Is A, Series, Periods, Commas

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

- Matthew McConaughey

Failure, More, Lot, Dissect

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Love, My Life, Fact, Absolutely Not

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.

- Matthew McConaughey

Every Day, Rather, Putting, Jeans

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

Bed, Part, Roles, Oh

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.

- Matthew McConaughey

Ways, Lot, Buoyant, Easy

When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

- Matthew McConaughey

Woman, Sexy, Very, Grace

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

Movie, Hugely, Great Sense, Repeat

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

- Matthew McConaughey

Grow, Bring, Them, Raise

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

Want, Evolve, Lover, Revolve

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.

- Matthew McConaughey

Here, Some, Sucks, Shine

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

College, Level, Actual, Coach

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Sports, Fan, Sports Fan, Football

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Ideas, Should, Least, Good Ideas

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Myself, Talk, Sure, Answer

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

- Matthew McConaughey

Think, I Think, Argue, Beat

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Career, Back, Arrogant, Criticize

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

Been, Built, Felt, Thrill

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Embrace, Other, Should, Listen

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

- Matthew McConaughey

Great, Motivation, Fair, Vanity

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

- Matthew McConaughey

Day, Break, Rule, Sweat

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

Sure, Part, About, Hurts

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

Pain, Give, Expecting

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

Big, Over, Films, Weekend

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Best, People, Give, Advice

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

- Matthew McConaughey

Exercise, Like, Works, Head

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