“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.”

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.