Top 187 Quotes & Sayings by Matthew McConaughey
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Matthew McConaughey.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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.
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.'
My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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.
The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.
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.
We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'
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.
There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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.
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.
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.
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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.
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.
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.
I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'
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.
Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
My rule is to break one sweat a day.
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
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.
I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
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.
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.
I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it's more fun.
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.
I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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.
What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'
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.
My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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.
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.
I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.
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.
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?'
Without exercise, I don't feel like my head works right.
There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.
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.
Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
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.
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.
A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.
Life is a series of commas, not periods.
Water's never clumsy.
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.
I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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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