A Quote by Matthew McConaughey
I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.
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Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at the timelines and you will see that there is a big discrepancy and there really is no going back and forth, my wife sometimes I mean you eventually you have to say something, enough is enough, but the truth is she has always taken the high road.
If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.
Canadians always make jokes about the arrogant American, but the longer I'm here, the more I realize, "Oh, it isn't that they're arrogant, it's just the way that their country is set up you really have to protect yourself and you really have to look after yourself, and with that comes the mentality of 'I'm doing my thing here, if you don't like it, get over it.'"
It's something to be proud about when I'm done, to look back at my career and know I've handled myself the way I wanted to - that my son can look back at my career and be proud of his dad.
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.
When I look back on everything, I'm really amazed by my career.
I don't want to look back on my career at some point and say, 'What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.'
If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.
The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.
I think I'll Look back and go, 'That was a really good career move.'
It's always fair to criticize, to question, to engage about things like whitewashing and violence against women and choices of lack of diversity. All those things are really, really a good thing to talk about.
If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers.
When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and sisters, criticize your country, criticize all the habits you have and laugh at yourself, is the best way. If you know how to laugh at yourself then you will not object or will not stand in the way of any creativity of another person.
I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
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