Quotes by Matthew McConaughey

“It'd Be a Lot Cooler If You Did.”

“Be brave. Take the hill. But first answer the question, "What is my hill?”

“I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.”

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

“There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.”

“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 it's exa...”

“I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

“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 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 t...”

“It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'”

“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.”

“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...”

“The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.”

“Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 ...”