Matthew McConaughey Quotes

The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.

I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

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

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.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

When I'm surfing, I'm sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

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.

I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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.

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.

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

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.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

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

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.

Try not to make a straight line crooked.

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

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Yes, it is the Big Easy, home of the shortest hangover on the planet, where libation can greet you on Monday morning with the same smile as it did on Saturday night.

I never go online on my iPhone. Sometimes I'm tempted but I remind myself and the kids - it's a tool. Use it as a tool. You're not the tool. My iPhone, 85% of the time I'm writing down ideas.

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

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

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.

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

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.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

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

Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

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.

I like the 'Alive' part. Now I've made it. Wait until you see the roles I could take after this. You're going to see my gut hanging over, plus 22lbs. It'll be a whole new kind of sexy!

Cynicism can be funny. But it's the easy way. You'll forget to enjoy anything. I try to make the evolving choice, the forward-moving, life-giving choice. Just keep living, man.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

I tell myself I bear witness. The real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide.

I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

Traveling is a great love of mine. I love South America and Africa. I'm your ultimate backpacker when I'm away. It's just me and my backpack. It's good for getting away from the industry.

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

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.

Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

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.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

Offers dried up after a few years and it was like I had fallen off the radar.

I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.

I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.