Matthew McConaughey

“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 i...”

“Water's never clumsy.”

“A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.”

“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.”

“Life is a series of commas, not periods.”

“Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the thi...”

“Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. O...”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.”

“I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.”

“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 mo...”

“I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they w...”

“I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and b...”

“Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.”

“My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That...”

“We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.”

“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.”