Quotes by Matthew McConaughey

About Matthew McConaughey:

Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor and producer. He first gained notice for his breakout role in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993), and went on to appear in films such as the slasher Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), the legal thriller A Time to Kill (1996), Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997), the science fiction drama Contact (1997), the comedy EDtv (1999) and the war film U-571 (2000).
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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

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

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

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

Matthew McConaughey

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

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

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Matthew McConaughey

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

Matthew McConaughey

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. Th...

Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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 ...

Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameMatthew McConaughey
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • AliasesMatthew David McConaughey
  • BornNovember 4, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actor