Best Matthew McConaughey Quotes, Advice And Thoughts

 

 

Matthew McConaughey is an American actor and producer. He initially picked up notice for his supporting execution in the transitioning satire Dazed and Confused (1993), which is considered by numerous individuals to be the on-screen character’s breakout job. After various supporting jobs in movies including Angels in the Outfield and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), McConaughey’s leap forward execution as the main man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). He pursued this with driving exhibitions in the science fiction film Contact and the historical drama Amistad (1997), the comedy-drama The Newton Boys (1998), the satire EDtv (1999), the war drama U-571 (2000) and the psychological thriller Frailty (2001).

Here are some of the Best Matthew McConaughey Quotes

 

 

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.– Matthew McConaughey

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.– Matthew McConaughey

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.– Matthew McConaughey

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

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.– Matthew McConaughey

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

We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’– Matthew McConaughey

“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

 

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

I think most defence attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.– Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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

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

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

“Water’s never clumsy.”- Matthew McConaughey

 

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

I will say this: one of the things that are a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.– Matthew McConaughey Quotes

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

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.– Matthew McConaughey

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and the 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

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

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

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

 

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

I’ve got a great sense of humour, 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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

 

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.– Matthew McConaughey

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.– Matthew McConaughey

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.– Matthew McConaughey

I love a 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

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 Quotes

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

I was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’– Matthew McConaughey

“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

 

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.– Matthew McConaughey

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

 

 

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When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about 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

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

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.– Matthew McConaughey

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.– Matthew McConaughey

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

“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

 

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.– Matthew McConaughey

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

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

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.– Matthew McConaughey Quotes

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

I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.– Matthew McConaughey

My rule is to break one sweat a day.– Matthew McConaughey

“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

 

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.– Matthew McConaughey Quotes

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

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

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

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

Life is a series of commas, not periods.– Matthew McConaughey

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

“I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.”- Matthew McConaughey

 

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.– Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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

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 Quotes

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 travelling across the neighbourhood, virtually going to that island.– Matthew McConaughey

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

“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 if that.”- Matthew McConaughey

 

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

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

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

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

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who are 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

In whatever adulation you get, there’s the truth and there’s not the truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s the truth and there’s not the truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.– Matthew McConaughey

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 lives in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.– Matthew McConaughey

“My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.”- Matthew McConaughey

 

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

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

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

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

 

 

84th of 84 Best Matthew McConaughey Quotes

 

 

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