Matthew McConaughey Quotes

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

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.

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.

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.

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

When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

My father – who I know is up there right now, with a big pot of gumbo, he’s got a lemon meringue pie, he’s probably in his underwear, and he’s got a cold can of Miller Lite – and he’s dancing.

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.

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.

I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.

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

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

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

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 chasin'. To that I say: Amen. To that I say: Alright, alright, alright. To that I say: Just keep livin'. Thank you.

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

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

A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.

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.

It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

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

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

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

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.

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.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman.

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

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.

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.

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Try not to make a straight line crooked.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though, is something else. It’s not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is “the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,” no matter the outcome.

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 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’

Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

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.

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

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

The "Dazed" fans are the best! "Dazed" fans never even want an autograph or nothin'.

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.