Top 250 Matthew McConaughey Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “We have to prepare to have freedom.”

— Matthew McConaughey

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

156. “I’m obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me.”

— Matthew McConaughey

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

160. “He talked to me about the mystery of marriage, and how when two people who are meant to be together unite, the adventure of livin side by side does not steal the individual’s sense of self, rather it enlightens and informs it.”

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

162. “I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.”

— Matthew McConaughey

163. “Days of prosperity make us forget adversity. Good times seems out of reach during the bad ones. Both can seem like final destinations, the summation of our days. Then the cosmic joker plays with our ways. Yesterday’s condition no longer remains. All commas, no periods, all stops, no stays, the pleasure’s for rent, but so is the pain.”

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

165. “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

166. “If the door’s shut, don’t come knockin,” is one of the first rules of trailer park livin. Sure, I heard “Matthew McConaughey’s staying in the park” many times, but after a few waves and head-high howdys, everyone always respected my privacy, because for the most part everyone honored trailer park rules.”

— Matthew McConaughey

167. “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

168. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

170. “Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.”

— Matthew McConaughey

171. “I come from a long line of rule breakers. Outlaw libertarians who vote red down the line because they believe it’ll keep fewer outlaws from trespassin on their territory.”

— Matthew McConaughey

172. “I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.”

— Matthew McConaughey

173. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

175. “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

176. “I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.”

— Matthew McConaughey

177. “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

178. “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

179. “She’s a woman that says “I’m gonna” before she can, “I would” before she could, and “I’ll be there” before she’s invited.”

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

181. “The “Dazed” fans are the best! “Dazed” fans never even want an autograph or nothin’.”

— Matthew McConaughey

182. “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

183. “Make my life my favorite movie. Live my favorite character. Write my own script. Direct my own story. Be my biography. Make my own documentary on me. Non-fiction, live, not recorded. Time to catch that hero I’ve been chasing. See if the sun will melt the wax that holds my wings or if the heat is just a mirage. Live my legacy now. Quit acting like me. Be me.”

— Matthew McConaughey

184. “Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?”

— Matthew McConaughey

185. “Nothing will bring you back down to earth like spitting a loogie in your own face.”

— Matthew McConaughey

186. “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

187. “When we know what we want to do, knowing when to do it is the hard part. Get em early so you don’t have to get em as often. Prevent before the cure, habilitate before the re.”

— Matthew McConaughey

188. “Now you can shut that door on me or we can walk through it together.”

— Matthew McConaughey

189. “I think it’s about livin, man,” I said. “Even though my dad’s no longer physically here, his spirit is still alive in me for as long as I keep it alive. I can still talk to him, do my best to live by what he taught me, and keep him alive forever.”

— Matthew McConaughey

190. “For the last month, every night after dinner, I’d go back to my restroom, run a hot bath, listen to one of my three cassettes on my Walkman, write another fifteen-page letter to myself, and jack off to Lord Byron. Every night.”

— Matthew McConaughey

191. “There’s a difference between art and self-expression. All art is self-expression. All self-expression is not art.”

— Matthew McConaughey

192. “The problems we face today eventually turn into blessings in the rearview mirror of life.”

— Matthew McConaughey

193. “I was falling in love. “What would I have to do to lose you?”

— Matthew McConaughey

194. “My first twenty years were where I learned the value of values. Through discipline and deep affection, I learned respect, accountability, creativity, courage, perseverance, fairness, service, good humor, and a spirit of adventure in ways that some people might consider abusive, but I remember as tough love, and I wouldn’t give back one ass whupping I ever got for the value of the values my parents impressed upon me. I thank them for that.”

— Matthew McConaughey

195. “The more we travel, the more we realize how similar our human needs are.”

— Matthew McConaughey

196. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

198. “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

199. “The honeymoon, like Hollywood, is an animated movie. It’s larger than life, not a reality we should expect to see once we exit the theater.”

— Matthew McConaughey

200. “Slightly calloused on the surface, we know that what tickles us often bruises others – because we deal with or deny it, we’re the last to cry uncle to bad luck.”

— Matthew McConaughey