My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.
— Matthew McConaughey
Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full - a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon's waning.
There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.
When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.
Kids will remind you that, even though you've gone down a road 100 times, it's brand new for them - and that's healthy.
I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.
If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it's more fun.
Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible - there's truth and there's not truth. It's human nature to like to read the adulation more.
Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.
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 things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
I don't dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it's gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin' White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It's connected to where you are today.
I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.
I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.
See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.
I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'
I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
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. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.
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.
There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.
Life is a series of commas, not periods.
I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
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 like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.
Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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 want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
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.
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.
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.
