Top 250 Matthew McConaughey Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

153. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

155. “If everything we did was right, we’d never know what was wrong.”

— Matthew McConaughey

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

159. “We have to prepare to have freedom.”

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

161. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

163. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

166. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

171. “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

172. “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

173. “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

174. “Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill, but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

178. “The only thing I ever knew I wanted to be was a father. To me, fatherhood meant a man had made it in life. Growing up, I said “yes sir” and “no sir” to my father and his friends because they were fathers. Fatherhood, what I most revered in life, what I was most impressed with, was now what I was about to become more involved with. The message of manhood that came to me at my own father’s passing had newborn relevance as I became one myself. Yes sir.”

— 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. “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

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

185. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

188. “If you’re not a starter and you think you should be, give em no choice in the decision. Play so well it’s undeniable.”

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

190. “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

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Matthew McConaughey

194. “I didn’t want to miss my twenties preparing for the rest of my life.”

— Matthew McConaughey

195. “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

196. “So, here I am, fifty years in, looking back to look forward.”

— Matthew McConaughey

197. “It was time to trade in any red sport cars I sill had.”

— Matthew McConaughey

198. “Time to catch the 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.”

— Matthew McConaughey

199. “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

200. “We cannot fully appreciate the light without the shadows.”

— Matthew McConaughey