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I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction? -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Life is a series of commas, not periods. -- 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
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Ye cannot serve God and mammon. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Man shall not live by bread alone. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- 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
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Romantic comedies are built to be light. They're built for a certain buoyancy. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I'm a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I'm not worried about how I'm perceived. Selfish has always gotten a bad rap. You should do for you. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I love it. It's silly to say that it is a world of false and stupid people. Sure there are witches and swindlers, but you can meet there many creative, talented and generous persons too. Hollywood is a pleasant place, when you are hip to the game and you enjoy it for what it is really. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I had a van that I customized so I could basically live out of that while I traveled and then I graduated to an Airstream. I've got three Airstreams now and they're all customized different ways. The good thing about those is there's not enough square footage to blow all your money. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can. -- 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
Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman. -- 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
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
The best advice comes from people who don't give advice. -- 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
I had a fan who had a fictional relationship with me. She wrote letters to me and then wrote return letters to herself (from me). In her mind, we were married and had two children. Her parents finally uncovered this delusional life she was living and she got help. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
'Unbelievable' is the stupidest word in the dictionary. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I don't mind assholes. It's the dork I don't trust. The dork is the one who's trying to be whatever he thinks you want him to be. I trust the asshole cause you know where he's gonna stand. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty. -- 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
Bringing a baby into the world is something I've always wanted, and now I'm completely ready for my life to start revolving around another human being. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
The best education I've had in my life is to travel. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
So, to any of us, whatever those things are, whatever it is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to, and whoever it is we're chasing, to that I say, 'Amen.' To that I say, 'Alright, alright, alright.' To that I say 'just keep living.' Thank you. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they're crying they need to do one of the three and they're having trouble doing it. Real simple. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.' -- Matthew Mcconaughey
My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back. -- 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
The tree is known by his fruit. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Try not to make a straight line crooked. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- 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
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. -- 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 good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. -- 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 like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process. -- 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
The "Dazed" fans are the best! "Dazed" fans never even want an autograph or nothin'. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
A genius could be anybody that he wants, but ingenious is always one person at that time. -- 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
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 best quality is that I'm a big hearted person. I'm resilient, too. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty of that to an extent. Everyone should be, I think - you need to respect yourself. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
By their fruits ye shall know them. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- 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
Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness of their beings. They just play and it's completely real for them at the time. As an actor, if we do it well, we make you believe. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
My rule is to break one sweat a day. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?' -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I'm for anything life-affirmative. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
A foolish man ... built his house upon the sand. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
There are three things, to my account, that I need each day. One of them is something to look up to, another is something to look forward to, and another is someone to chase. -- 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
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?' -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.' -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Good ideas are free - or at least they should be. -- 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
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I like to customize things. I customized the back of old Lincoln to be my mobile office. I had one of those little laptop desks like in a police car, and I had a cooler in there, so that was my mobile office. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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?' -- Matthew Mcconaughey
My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it's more fun. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let's forget that right. Let's forget the pleasure you get safely on your range, because it's in the wrong hands in other places. -- 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
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Wisdom is justified of her children. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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.' -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
The older you get, the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, l-i-v-i-n' -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
It's nice when they notice the deep voice from across the house, and they know it's papa. They know it's Dad. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Don't play an attitude; don't play a guy who's negative. Play a guy who's not trying to sell anybody on anything, he's just saying how it is and if you want to come by what he's thinking, you're welcome. If you do not, then do not. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
It'd Be a Lot Cooler If You Did. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Offers dried up after a few years and it was like I had fallen off the radar. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there's some magic trick. There's no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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.' -- Matthew Mcconaughey
When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals? -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Without exercise, I don't feel like my head works right. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
I've got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I've got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
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! -- Matthew Mcconaughey
No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed! -- Matthew Mcconaughey
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Water's never clumsy. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over ... and they stick to it. -- Matthew Mcconaughey
Life'strong>sstrong> barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at. -- Matthew Mcconaughey