Matthew McConaughey quotes

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

“Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.”

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— 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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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'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

“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

“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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— 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

“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

“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

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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— 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

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

— 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

“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

“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