Matthew McConaughey

"We all need a walkabout... We are constantly bombarded by more unnatural stimuli than ever before. We need to put ourselves in places of decreased sensory input, so we can decrease the noise background signals of our psychological process. When the noise decreases, the signals become clearer. We could hear ourselves again. We can reunite. Time alone simplifies the heart. Memory catches up. Opinions form. We meet truth again, and it teaches us, landing on stable feet, between our reaching out and retreat, letting us know we are not lonely in our state, just alone. Because our unconscious mind now has room to reveal itself, we see it again. It dreams, perceives, and thinks in pictures, which we can now observe."

"The question we need to ask ourselves is: what is success to us? More money? That's fine. A healthy family? A happy marriage? Helping others? To be famous? Spiritually sound? To express ourselves? To create art? To leave the world a better place than we found it? What is success to me? Continue to ask yourself that question. How are you prosperous? What is your relevance? Your answer may change over time and that's fine but do yourself this favor – whatever your answer is, don't choose anything that would jeopardize your soul. Prioritize who you are, who you want to be, and don't spend time with anything that antagonizes your character. Don't depend on drinking the Kool-Aid – it's popular, tastes sweet today, but it will give you cavities tomorrow. Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill. But first answer the question."

"I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out."

"I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home."

"I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them."

"The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them."

"There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way."

"Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts."

"The best advice comes from people who don't give advice."

"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."

"A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach."

"It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that."

"I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win."

"See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do."

"I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island."

"I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations."

"I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition."

"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."

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

"We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success."