“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.”

American actor

Matthew McConaughey is an American actor. He rose to wider attention in the 1993 coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused, and later found his first real success as a leading man in the legal drama A Time to Kill in 1996. After that breakthrough, he took starring roles in Contact, Amistad, and U-571, all released between 1997 and 2000. His screen work is associated with a mix of legal drama, science fiction, historical drama, and war films.