Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor. He first gained notice for his breakout role in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused. He appeared in such films as the slasher Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, the legal thriller A Time to Kill, Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad, the science fiction drama Contact, the comedy EDtv, and the war film U-571...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 November 1969
CityUvalde, TX
CountryUnited States of America
As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.
I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.
I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?
I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.
Without exercise, I don't feel like my head works right.
Very seldom to you read about stories like this. It's based on something that happened ... history. I was inspired by it. It really happened and it stayed on my mind. I wanted to be a part of it somehow." ()
You can make these things for cheap. This one cost $35 million. You make $70 million on 'The Wedding Planner,' you're dancing in the streets. You make $70 million on 'Sahara' (which cost $130 million), you're not dancing in the streets." ()
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?'
We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'
I was responsible for Brandon Lang, ... That was my job, to be able to make a believable character who you can understand and go through the whole story with." ()
She's got a premiere in Paris. But we're both having a great night." ()
She's a cool ghost. Maybe me being nude all the time is why we get along." ()
such an exotic underworld that we know a little about, but not much. I've wanted to explore it for a while." ()
I thought this was a great story about a winner who starts losing, ... And if you're a winner, what do you do if you lose, and how do you get out of that hole?" ()