Matthew McConaughey Quotes, Thoughts and images

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.

I'm just the last English twit, really.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

To work effectively in a film, you have to repeat and work consistently. Basically, you shoot a big master then you do close-ups. You're supposed to be in the same moment, the same 30-second moment, for a day.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.