Matthew McConaughey

Highest Rated: 98% Mud (2013)

Lowest Rated: 0% Surfer, Dude (2008)

Birthday: Nov 4, 1969

Birthplace: Uvalde, Texas

With a rangy handsomeness that makes him look as if he would be equally comfortable branding cattle, Matthew McConaughey found fame shortly after making his screen debut in Richard Linklater's 1993 Dazed and Confused. After being cast in two high-profile 1996 films, Lone Star and A Time to Kill, the actor was soon being hailed as one of the industry's hottest young leading men, inspiring comparisons to such charismatic purveyors of cinematic testosterone as Paul Newman and Tom Cruise.A product of Texas, McConaughey was born in Uvalde on November 4, 1969 and raised in Longview. The son of a substitute teacher and a former member of the Green Bay Packers, he excelled in sports as a high school student and was voted "Most Handsome" by his senior class. After graduating, McConaughey spent some time working in Australia and then returned to the States to attend the University of Texas at Austin. It was there that he met producer and casting director Don Phillips, who introduced him to director Linklater, and, after directing from UT in 1993 with a degree in film production, McConaughey was cast in Dazed and Confused. Although his role as Wooderson, a slacker old enough to know better, was relatively small, McConaughey succeeded in winning a degree of immortality with lines like, "That's what I like about high school girls: I keep getting older, they stay the same age." After Dazed, McConaughey took on a number of supporting roles in films of varying quality, appearing in everything from 1994's Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre to 1995's Boys on the Side, in which he was cast as Drew Barrymore's straight-arrow cop boyfriend. The latter film won him some notice, heightened a year later when he was cast in John Sayles' acclaimed Lone Star. McConaughey made a distinct impression in his small but pivotal role as the town's beloved late sheriff, Buddy Deeds, and was duly given his first leading role in Joel Schumacher's 1996 adaptation of John Grisham's A Time to Kill. Although the film met with lackluster reviews, McConaughey managed to attract favorable attention, holding his own against Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, and Sandra Bullock.Finding himself elected to the throne of Hollywood Golden Boy, a status cemented by his appearance on the cover of the August 1996 Vanity Fair, McConaughey paradoxically followed his initial success with a string of small, largely unseen films before landing a starring role as a property lawyer in Amistad, Steven Spielberg's 1997 slave epic. The same year, he also starred in Contact, playing a New Age theologian in Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of Carl Sagan's best-selling novel. After again collaborating with Linklater in 1998 on The Newton Boys, in which he starred alongside Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, and Vincent D'Onofrio as the remarkably photogenic family of titular robbers, McConaughey banded together with off-screen pal Bullock on her directorial debut, the short Making Sandwiches, the same year. For all the hype surrounding the beginning of his career, by the time he was cast in the lead role of Ron Howard's EdTV, McConaughey had receded somewhat from the public eye, with many critics noting that despite his talent and physical attributes, the actor seemed to have trouble finding roles that would do him justice. But McConaughey's turn as the laid-back everyman who becomes an overnight celebrity when he allows his life to be broadcast on TV proved a relative success, with the actor winning praise for his endearingly dopey performance. The film itself garnered a number of positive reviews and gave a decent box office performance, and by the end of that year, McConaughey had his name attached to a number of projects, including those of his own production company, J.K. Livin'. In October 1999, McConaughey achieved notoriety of a different sort, when he was arrested for resisting transport after the Austin, Texas police responded to noise complaints about his late-night naked bongo-playing; drug

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	White Boy Rick	Richard Wershe, Sr.	—	2018
16%	The Dark Tower	Man in Black	$50M	2017
43%	Gold	Kenny Wells Producer	$7.3M	2017
73%	Sing	Buster Moon	$270.4M	2016
12%	The Sea of Trees	Arthur Brennan	$20.6k	2016
97%	Kubo and the Two Strings	Beetle	$48.1M	2016
93%	Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny	Actor	—	2016
47%	Free State of Jones	Newton Knight	—	2016
71%	Interstellar	Cooper	$158.8M	2014
40%	21 Years: Richard Linklater	Actor	—	2014
77%	The Wolf of Wall Street	Mark Hanna	$91.4M	2013
93%	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodruff	$23.8M	2013
98%	Mud	Mud	$21.6M	2013
43%	The Paperboy	Ward Jansen	$0.7M	2012
78%	Killer Joe	"Killer" Joe Cooper	$1.9M	2012
80%	Magic Mike	Dallas	$113.8M	2012
89%	Bernie	Danny Buck	$6M	2012
No Score Yet	Man In The Glass: The Dale Brown Story	Actor	—	2012
83%	The Lincoln Lawyer	Mick Haller	$58M	2011
27%	The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Connor Mead	$55.2M	2009
No Score Yet	Made in China	Himself	—	2009
0%	Surfer, Dude	Steve Addington	—	2008
82%	Tropic Thunder	Rick Peck	$110.5M	2008
11%	Fool's Gold	Ben 'Finn' Finnegan	$70.2M	2008
No Score Yet	Return of the Thundering Herd	Actor	—	2007
49%	We Are Marshall	Jack Lengyel	$43.6M	2006
24%	Failure to Launch	Tripp	$88.7M	2006
No Score Yet	Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel Story	Actor	—	2006
22%	Two for the Money	Brandon Lang	$22.9M	2005
88%	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	Al Bean	$32.6M	2005
39%	Sahara	Dirk Pitt Executive Producer	$68.7M	2005
18%	Paparazzi	Himself (uncredited)	$15.6M	2004
29%	Tiptoes	Steven	—	2004
42%	How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days	Ben Barry	$105.8M	2003
No Score Yet	Festival Pass with Chris Gore	Actor	—	2002
40%	Reign of Fire	Denton Van Zan	$43M	2002
73%	Frailty	Fenton Meiks	$13.1M	2002
No Score Yet	Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War	Narrator	—	2002
83%	Thirteen Conversations About One Thing	Troy	$3.1M	2001
16%	The Wedding Planner	Dr. Steve Edison	$60M	2001
68%	U-571	Lt. Andrew Tyler	—	2000
No Score Yet	Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth	Actor	—	2000
63%	EDtv	Ed	—	1999
62%	The Newton Boys	Willis Newton	—	1998
76%	Amistad	Roger S. Baldwin	—	1997
62%	Contact	Palmer Joss	—	1997
11%	Larger Than Life	Tip Tucker	—	1996
No Score Yet	Scorpion Spring	El Rojo	—	1996
No Score Yet	Glory Daze	Rental Truck Guy	—	1996
67%	A Time to Kill	Jake Brigance	—	1996
93%	Lone Star	Buddy Deeds	—	1996
73%	Boys on the Side	Abe	—	1995
16%	Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation	Vilmer	—	1994
33%	Angels in the Outfield	Ben Williams	—	1994
94%	Dazed and Confused	David Wooderson	—	1993
14%	My Boyfriend's Back	Guy #2	—	1993

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Tavis Smiley 2013	Guest	2017
91%	The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2017 2014
No Score Yet	Late Night With Seth Meyers 2014	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	The Chew 2011	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	Sunday Morning 2011	Appearing	2016 2014
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014	Guest	2016 2015 2014
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live 1975	Host Guest	2015 2003
No Score Yet	Inside the Actors Studio 1994	Guest	2014
No Score Yet	Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014	Guest	2014
No Score Yet	The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson 2005-2014	Guest	2014
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2014
74%	True Detective 2014-2015	Rustin Cohle Rust Cohle Producer	2014
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2014 2013 2012
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Guest	2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2006 2003 2001 2000
No Score Yet	Late Show With David Letterman 1993-2015	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 1999-2015	Guest	2012
82%	Eastbound & Down 2009-2013	Roy McDaniel	2012 2010
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013	Guest	2011
No Score Yet	Sex and the City 1998-2004	Himself	2000

Quotes from Matthew McConaughey's Characters

Newton Knight:

From this day forward we declare the land of Pascagoula swamp to be a free state of jones.

Cooper:

Newton's third law. You gotta leave something behind.

Cooper:

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.

Connor Mead:

Someone once told me that the power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, and he was right. But power isn't happiness, and I think that maybe happiness comes from caring more about people rather than less

Brand:	Cooper you were thinking about getting home! I was trying to do the right thing!
Cooper:	And you tell that to Doyle.

Cooper:	You sent people out there looking for a new home?
Prof. Brand:	The Lazarus missions.
Cooper:	That sounds cheerful.
Prof. Brand:	Lazarus care back from the dead.
Cooper:	Sure, but he had to die in the first place.

Cooper:

I love you forever and I'm coming back.

Cooper:

I know what Morse code is Murph I just don't think your bookshelf is trying to talk to you.

Cooper:

Mankind was born on Earth ... it was never meant to die here.

Cooper:

Come on Tars!

Prof. Brand:	We need the bravest humans to find us a new home.
Cooper:	But the nearest star is over a thousand years away.
Doyle:	Hence the bravery.

Brand:	There's the mountains!
Brand:	Towards the mountains!
Cooper:	Those aren't mountains, they're waves.

Cooper:	Everybody ready to say goodbye to our Solar System?
Romilly:	To our galaxy.

Doyle:	You can't just think about your family now. You have to think bigger than that.
Cooper:	I am thinking about my family and millions of other families.

Cooper:	I have kids, professor.
Prof. Brand:	Get out there, and save them.

Cooper:	Dr. Mann there's a 50/50 chance your gonna kill yourself.
Dr. Mann:	Those are the best odds I've had in years.

Young Murphy:	So, how did it go?...
Cooper:	Got you suspended.
Young Murphy:	What?!

Cooper:

I have an itch, heading back to base!

TARS:	Cooper, we are...lined up.
Cooper:	Initiating spin!

CASE:	It's not possible.
Cooper:	No. It's necessary.

Cooper:

Parents are the ghosts of their children's future. I can't be your ghost anymore Murph.

Cooper:	So how do you plan on saving the world?
Brand:	We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it.

Cooper:

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.

Cooper:

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.

Cooper:

Murph, I love you, forever.

Cooper:

We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. Or perhaps we've just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we've barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us.

Cooper:	We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.
Brand:	Do not go gentle into that good night; Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Cooper:

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.

Cooper:

Brand:

Love is the one thing that transcends time and space.

Rayon:	I'm Rayon.
Ron Woodroof:	Congratulations... fuck off and go back to your bed.

Jake Brigance:

Now Imagine She's White.

Ron Woodroof:

You enjoy your life, little lady. You only got one.

Ron Woodroof:

Stop staring at her breast. You've started look normal.

Ron Woodroof:

Welcome to The Dallas Buyers Club.

Ron Woodroof:

There ain't nothing out there that can kill Ron Woodroof in 30 days.

Ron Woodroof:	I like your style Doc
Ron Woodroof:	I like your style, Doc.

Ron Woodroof:

Fuck off!

Ron Woodroof:

Get the fuck out of my bed!

Dr. Eve Saks:	None of those drugs have been approved by the FDA.
Ron Woodroof:	Screw the FDA. I'm going to be DOA.

Mark Hanna:

It's his first day on Wall Street give him some time.

Mark Hanna:

OK, first rule of Wall Street - Nobody - and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or f-ing sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.

Ron Woodroof:

I swear it Ray , god sure was dressin the wrong doll when he blessed you with a set of balls.

Ron Woodroof:

I prefer to die with my boots on.

Mark Hanna:

How many times a week you jerk off?

Ron Woodroof:

Sometimes, I feel I'm fighting for a life that I just ain't got the time to live. I want it all to mean something.

Tucker:	You ok?
Ron Woodroof:	You rattled my brain
Ron Woodroof:	You rattled my brain.
Tucker:	What brain?

John F. Kennedy:	I'll be looking forward to working with you the next four years.
Jacqueline Kennedy:	Eight years
Jacqueline Kennedy:	Eight years.

Tip Tucker:

You don't do that to me! You don't do that to Tip Tucker and his Tip-Top Trucking!

"Killer" Joe Cooper:	She's my retainer!
Chris Smith:	Deal's off. You're gonna have to eat this one.
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	You know I'll kill you.
Chris Smith:	Go fuck yourself.

"Killer" Joe Cooper:

Do you want me to wear your face?

Denton Van Zan:	Don't be a fool. We do this easy... or we can do this real easy.
Denton Van Zan:	Don't be a fool. We do this easy or we can do this real easy.

"Killer" Joe Cooper:

Now suck this.

"Killer" Joe Cooper:	I mean all she did was suck his cock and try and steal your money. It could have been worse.
Ansel:	How?
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	Well... no, I suppose that's about as bad as it gets.

"Killer" Joe Cooper:	That poor, miserable bastard set his own genitals on fire just to teach his girlfriend a lesson. I guess he showed her. I wonder if she ever got over it.
Dottie:	Was he all right?
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	No. No, he was not all right. He set his genitals on fire.

"Killer" Joe Cooper:

"What did you think this is, Let's Make a Deal? This is serious business you're fucking with here, boy.

"Killer" Joe Cooper:

You insult me again, and I'll cut your face off and wear it over my own.

Chris:	What do you mean? Hey, man, you talking about my sister?
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	Is that who she is?

"Killer" Joe Cooper:	Tuna casserole! May I serve?
Dottie:	How are you gonna kill my mama?
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	That's not appropriate dinner conversation, Dottie.
Dottie:	It is if you poison her.

Randy "Pink" Floyd:	Have you seen Jodi around?
Wooderson:	No she left your ass.
Randy "Pink" Floyd:	Well you win some you lose some.

Wooderson:

Let me tell you what Melba Toast is packin' right here, all right. We got 4:11 Positrac outback, 750 double pumper, Edelbrock intake, bored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbo-jet 390 horsepower. We're talkin' some fuckin' muscle.

"Killer" Joe Cooper:	Hey! What do you think?
Ansel:	I don't!

"Killer" Joe Cooper:	Where you aware of this Ansel?
Ansel:	I'm never aware...

Ward Jansen:

Better be late and be right than be first and be wrong... boy!

"Killer" Joe Cooper:

Do you want me to cut off your face and wear it?!

Wooderson:	What do you reckon you're gonna do?
Randy "Pink" Floyd:	I don't know man I'll probably end up signing it, I just don't wanna give in so easy.
Wooderson:	Man it's the same bullshit they tried to pull in my day. Ya know, if it ain't that piece of paper, it's some other choice they're gonna try to make for you. You got to do what Randall "Pink" Floyd wants to do, man. And let me tell you this; the older you do get, the more rules they're gonna TRY to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man. L-I-V-I-N.
Slater:	Man, if you're gonna sign that paper, man, you should throw a little grass in the middle, man, roll it up, and sign the joint, man. That's gonna tell 'em somethin'.

"Killer" Joe Cooper:	I mean, she did was suck his cock and try to steal your money.
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	I mean all she did was suck his cock and try and steal your money. It could have been worse.
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	it could have been worse.
Ansel Smith:	How?
Ansel:	How?
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	Well... No, I suppose thatÂ´s about bad as it gets.
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	Well...
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	No, I suppose tha´s about bad as it gets.

"Killer" Joe Cooper:	Whose Dick is that?
"Killer" Joe Cooper:	Who's dick is this?

Mickey Haller:

You know what I'm afraid of now? Evil, pure Evil.

"Killer" Joe Cooper:

Dark or white?

Jake Brigance:

I want to tell you a story. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves. Go ahead. Close your eyes, please. This is a story about a little girl walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. I want you to picture this little girl. Suddenly a truck races up. Two men jump out and grab her. They drag her into a nearby field and they tie her up and they rip her clothes from her body. Now they climb on. First one, then the other, raping her, shattering everything innocent and pure with a vicious thrust in a fog of drunken breath and sweat. And when they're done, after they've killed her tiny womb, murdered any chance for her to have children, to have life beyond her own, they decide to use her for target practice. They start throwing full beer cans at her. They throw them so hard that it tears the flesh all the way to her bones. Then they urinate on her. Now comes the hanging. They have a rope. They tie a noose. Imagine the noose going tight around her neck and with a sudden blinding jerk she's pulled into the air and her feet and legs go kicking. They don't find the ground. The hanging branch isn't strong enough. It snaps and she falls back to the earth. So they pick her up, throw her in the back of the truck and drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge. Pitch her over the edge. And she drops some thirty feet down to the creek bottom below. Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white!

"Killer" Joe Cooper:

Who's dick is this? Is this your dick, Ansl?

Rick Peck:

You muh-muh-make me hah-pay.

Wooderson:	Wooderson: Alright, alright, alright.
Wooderson:	Alright, alright, alright.

Wooderson:	Wooderson: That's what I love about these High School chicks man, I get older, they stay the same age.
Wooderson:	That's what I love about these High School chicks man, I get older, they stay the same age.

Joe Cooper:

Tuna casserole!

Dallas:	The law says you cant touch, but I see a lot of Law...Breakers ;)
Dallas:	The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.

Rick Peck:

It was like pistol whipping a blind kid.

Dallas:	You are the husband they've never had, you are the dream guy they've never came along
Dallas:	You are the husband they've never had, you are the dream guy they've never came along.

Dallas:	Fact is, the law says you cannot touch! But I think I see a lotta lawbreakers up in this house tonigh
Dallas:	Fact is, the law says you cannot touch! But I think I see a lotta lawbreakers up in this house tonight.

Danny Buck Davidson:

Frozen like a popsicle.

Jack Lengyel:	ls that the Ohio Valley Coal line? The same one that went off the tracks near Akron last winter?
Red Dawson:	Yep. That's the one.
Jack Lengyel:	Back on track.

Wooderson:

That's what I love about these High School chicks man, I get older, they stay the same age.

O'Bannion:	Hey Slater give me drugs man!
Wooderson:	..get some from your mother man...
Wooderson:	Get some from your mother man...

Wooderson:	Alright,AlrightAlright
Wooderson:	Alright, alright, alright.

Wooderson:	Hey man, you got a joint?
Mitch Kramer:	Uhh, no; not on me man.
Wooderson:	It'd be a lot cooler if you did.

Wooderson:

I love those redheads man.

Steve Addington:

These guys arn't exactly committed to long care...

Steve Addington:	"I'm not an ass clown, in a green room". - S.A.
Steve Addington:	I'm not some ass clown in a green room.

Wooderson:	"that's why I love them high-school girls, I get older, they stay the same age"
Wooderson:	That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Palmer Joss:

You could call me a man of the cloth, without the cloth.

Mickey Haller:	Client 1: Dont worry I got it (your money) Haller: Exactly, you got it and I dont.
Mickey Haller:	Exactly, you got it and I dont.

Mickey Haller:

I can't wait to show up the next morning so I can kick your ass!

Wooderson:

Alright, alright, alright.

Wooderson:	Hey man you got a joint?
Mitch Kramer:	No man not on me.
Mitch Kramer:	No man, not on me.
Wooderson:	It be a cooler if you did.

Studio Executive Rob Slolom:	Welcome to the goodie room!
Les Grossman:	You paying attention? I'm talking... G5, Pecker! That's how you can roll. No more frequent flyer bitch miles for my boy! Oh yeah! Playa... playa! Big dick playa!
Studio Executive Rob Slolom:	Swinging past ya knees!
Les Grossman:	Big di*k, baby!
Studio Executive Rob Slolom:	Yep
Les Grossman:	[turns off the music] Or... you can grow a conscience in the next five minutes and see where that takes you.
Rick Peck:	Let me get this straight. You want me to let my client of 15 years, one of my best friends, die in the jungle alone, for some money and a G5?
Les Grossman:	Yes

Rick Peck:

I got the TiVo!

Rick Peck:	How's the adoption thing going?
Tugg Speedman:	Not good.
Rick Peck:	At least you get to choose yours. I'm stuck with mine.

Rick Peck:	[about Speedman] They're going to kill him!
Les Grossman:	And we'll weep for him... in the press, set up a scholarship in his name, eventually - and I'm talkin' way, way down the road - we file an insurance claim.
Les Grossman:	And we'll weep for him... in the press. Set up a scholarship in his name, eventually, and I'm talkin' way, way down the road, we file an insurance claim.
Studio Executive Rob Slolom:	Preferably before the end of the fiscal year. Actually, the claim alone would net us more than the movie would lose.

Rick Peck:	You can't be serious?
Les Grossman:	You kick in the door to my house all ants in your pants, sucking my left nut to get a TiVo scrap for the 3rd runner-up "sexiest man alive" 1998... And you're asking if I'm SERIOUS?
Les Grossman:	You kick in the door to my house all ants in your pants, sucking my left nut to get a TiVo scrap for the 3rd runner-up 'sexiest man alive' 1998... And you're asking if I'm SERIOUS?