Matthew McConaughey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
-
I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
-
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
-
Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
-
I never pursued being 'famous.'
-
When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
-
I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
-
I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
-
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
-
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
-
More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
-
I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
-
I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
-
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
-
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
-
I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
-
I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
-
I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
-
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
-
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
-
I think that when you are struggling as an actor, you imagine that if things were to pan out, everything in your life would change, But really, it's not so different. You're still pursuing good work. You still panic that you're doing it all wrong.
-
When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.
-
The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.
-
I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.
