Matthew McConaughey quote: "I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on."

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know w...
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completel...
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Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the...
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The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo...
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I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mell...
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I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do i...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It...
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My rule is to break one sweat a day.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technolo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd nev...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Water's never clumsy.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough roo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't w...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore....
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's percepti...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it transl...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I gues...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your pho...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I'd rather go around in a go...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them you...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They'r...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it's more f...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

The Power in a relationship lies with the person who cares the least
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

This guy knows knows sports the way an art dealer knows a painting, ... He will tell you intricacies...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Once we were doing a scene, and suddenly, right in the middle of the take, he stops and looks at me ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I thought this was a great story about a winner who starts losing, ... And if you're a winner, what ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

And that's the main buzz with betting games like this. Every weekend, whether I bet or not, I go thr...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

We all like to be able to tell the future,
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you re...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

such an exotic underworld that we know a little about, but not much. I've wanted to explore it for a...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

You're like a crack enhanced Kathie Lee!
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Life is a series of commas, not periods.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've g...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

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

Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or g...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I don't dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it's gonna hurt when ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full - a heavy, full, waxin...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knock...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

There's a [trend] happening right now of kids getting older but not necessarily moving out of the ho...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

[In the film, Matthew is Brandon Lane, a former college football player with a knack for sports bett...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spo...
MATTHEW SWEET

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
MATTHEW STEWART

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends....
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I ...
MATTHEW SETTLE

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative...
MATTHEW SCULLY

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
MATTHEW QUICK

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
MATTHEW SHIPP

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.
MATTHEW QUICK

I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me i...
MATTHEW QUICK

Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they&...
MATTHEW DESMOND

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '...
MATTHEW LILLARD

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
MATTHEW MORRISON

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
MATTHEW MACFADYEN

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly rememb...
MATTHEW RHYS

I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and be...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,...
MATTHEW SETTLE

Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.
MATTHEW MCGRORY

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ...
MATTHEW DESMOND

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&...
MATTHEW RHYS

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r...
MATTHEW LILLARD

Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dra...
MATTHEW SCULLY

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted ...
MATTHEW MACFADYEN

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t...
MATTHEW STEWART

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan...
MATTHEW RHYS

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
MATTHEW ASHFORD

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ...
MATTHEW QUICK

Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
MATTHEW PRIOR

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...
MATTHEW SIMPSON

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW GREEN

Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lay...
MATTHEW PRIOR

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I kno...
MATTHEW QUICK

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...
MATTHEW LEWIS

We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.
MATTHEW BOULTON

There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac...
MATTHEW DICKS

Dare to Differ
MATTHEW GOLDFINGER

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And ...
MATTHEW SCULLY

Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making...
MATTHEW FOX

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
MATTHEW PRIOR

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR

They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
MATTHEW PRIOR

To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
MATTHEW PRIOR

One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how...
MATTHEW FOX

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
MATTHEW PRIOR

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
MATTHEW PRIOR

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The ends must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
MATTHEW FOX

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD

That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home....
MATTHEW PERRY

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
MATTHEW GREEN

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Or to some coffee-house I stray,
For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp
MATTHEW GREEN

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just oursel...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather t...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder pas...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX

At night astronomers agree.
MATTHEW PRIOR

I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye wi...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

To err is human.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The end must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR

I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Brave...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-top...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden an...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath; Tonight it doth inherit Th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prev...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR

They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: "Eternity, be thou ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY

Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND

The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

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