Quotes from Matthew McConaughey

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

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.

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.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

When you've got God, you got a friend. And that friend is you.

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

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

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.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

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.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Water's never clumsy.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.

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.

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.