370 Quotes by Matthew McConaughey

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 exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

When I'm surfing, I'm sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human kind. He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late (British actor) Charlie Laughton, who said, 'When you got God, you got a friend and that friend is you.'

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

It's nice when they notice the deep voice from across the house, and they know it's papa. They know it's Dad.