A biography for Matthew McConaugheyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.”
“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.”
“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 whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.”
“When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'”
“I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't play characters that are celebrities - you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank's blocked.”
“I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.”
“I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'”
“To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.”
“We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.”
“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.”
“I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, 'Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?' You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.”
“Life is a series of commas, not periods.”
“I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.”
“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 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.”