102+ Matthew McConaughey Quotes On Success, Texas And Wife

Matthew McConaughey is an American actor, producer, and musician. He is best known for his roles in films such as Dazed and Confused, A Time to Kill, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Dallas Buyers Club. He has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for his acting. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Matthew McConaughey on life, love, success.

Top 10 Matthew McConaughey Quotes

1. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
2. Man shall not live by bread alone.
3. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.
4. 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’
5. 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.
6. It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.
7. 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.
8. Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
9. When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.
10. 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.

Matthew McConaughey Short Quotes

• By their fruits ye shall know them.
• I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
• My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.
• There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
• The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
• No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!
• The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.
• I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.
• A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

Matthew McConaughey Quotes About Life

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

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

I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals? — 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

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving. — 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 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

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

Matthew McConaughey Quotes About Love

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

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

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

Matthew McConaughey Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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. — 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

Each of the films, whether it’s Magic Mike or Dallas Buyers Club, was a challenge for me. I had to dig deeper. Also, my decision to shake things up came after my first child was born. I had taken nearly two years off and I thought that I would enjoy my time as a dad and wait until something interesting came along. — 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

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

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

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

It'd Be a Lot Cooler If You Did. — Matthew McConaughey

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. — 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

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

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

The tree is known by his fruit. — Matthew McConaughey

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? — Matthew McConaughey

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

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

Romantic comedies are built to be light. They're built for a certain buoyancy. — Matthew McConaughey

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. — Matthew McConaughey

Directors like William Friedkin (Killer Joe), Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike) and Lee Daniels (The Paperboy) got in touch with me and wanted me to be part of their films. That was a whole new chapter for me. I didn’t chase any of those films and it made me think that I was right to take a chance, say no to the kind of thing I had grown tired of doing, and wait until something good came around. And it did. — 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

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed. — Matthew McConaughey

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

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

If I'm doing something I do like to take it to the limit. I've got a high ceiling. A wide threshold for seeing what those boundaries are for myself. I'm very resilient inside. I find things that I like and do and boy, I do like to stick to them. I'm not necessarily a guy who gets addicted to more of certain things, but if I find something I like to do, I like to stick to it. — 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

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me. — Matthew McConaughey

Try not to make a straight line crooked. — Matthew McConaughey

We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody. — 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

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition. — Matthew McConaughey

In romantic comedies there's a certain ceiling and a floor that you can't necessarily love as hard, or hate as hard, or have as much pain, because you sink the shop of the romantic comedy. But in a certain drama, like some of the ones I've been doing, the ceiling and the floor was my own. And in many ways, that was a higher ceiling and a lower floor, so that was more of a band-with for those emotions. — 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

I do believe in God, but I think it's very healthy for a believer to spend time in the pragmatism of agnosticism, and I think God appreciates agnostics trying to make a science of it and going, "I will not believe any further than that." I enjoy that kind of engineering mind. In no way did it ever feel blasphemous to me as a man of faith. — 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

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles. — Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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

I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me. — Matthew McConaughey

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

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to. — Matthew McConaughey

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

First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human kind. He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late (British actor) Charlie Laughton, who said, 'When you got God, you got a friend and that friend is you.' — 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

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 was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up. — Matthew McConaughey

The hardest thing was going through different stages of weight loss. At the beginning, it was easy to take off the weight with exercise and eating less but then you reach a point where 90 per cent of the weight loss is achieved purely through reducing your calorie intake. My goal was to lose four pounds per week. That worked well for the first few months but then things got tricky. — Matthew McConaughey

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out. — Matthew McConaughey

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Offers dried up after a few years and it was like I had fallen off the radar. — Matthew McConaughey

I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time. — Matthew McConaughey

Life Lessons by Matthew McConaughey

1. Matthew McConaughey teaches us to stay humble, work hard, and never give up on our dreams.
2. He also reminds us to stay true to ourselves and to take risks in order to grow and reach our goals.
3. Finally, he shows us the importance of being kind and generous to others, and to always strive to make a positive impact in the world.