Matthew McConaughey Quotes - Page 6

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

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.

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.

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.

A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let's forget that right. Let's forget the pleasure you get safely on your range, because it's in the wrong hands in other places.

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

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.

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.

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

The best education I've had in my life is to travel.

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.

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

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

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

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

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.

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