Unbelievable is the stupidest word in the dictionary. I think it found me. My other brother was in HS in the early 1980s, and by this time the GED wasnt enough to guarantee employment, you needed a college degree, and if you got one, you had a pretty good chance of getting the kind of job you wanted after you graduated. Can you hear me? Today, I'm talking to another one, Matthew McConaughey. Joy is the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome. And you dont have that job that directly reflects the degree you just got. I mean, hell yeah, give me more scenes. Now, check this out. When do we write in our diary? He does not stutter step, flinch, rewind, ask twice or solicit. Matthew McConaughey: (16:57) Its an if, then cause and effect, quid pro quo standard that we cannot sustain, because we immediately raise it every time we attain it. Did I want to come up here and just share some funny stories. Not the lowered insurance rate for a good driving record, you will not be fined or put in jail if you do not gratify the obligations I speak ofno one else governs these but you. Matthew McConaughey: (36:00) Maybe its a healthy family. University of Houston 2015 Commencement Speech. And since she did, now, for the first time in my life, I just liked it because I could get it, I never thought about if I really wanted it there. I think it was 150 grand. Your answer may change over time and thats fine, but do yourself this favor: WHATEVER your answer is, DONT CHOOSE ANYTHING THAT WILL JEOPARDIZE YOUR SOUL. Me, I graduated high school in 1988. Humility is not vogue anymore. Having the courage to act on it. We try our best, we dont always do our best. You know that group of friends that you hang out with that really might not bring out the best in you? What success is to you? The place where what we want is also just what we need. I needed to free myself from them Who was I? He used to run over the goal line, through the end zone and up the tunnel. By Brian Bennett. The sudden fame that I just gotten was somewhat unbalancing. Its not fair, it never was, it isnt now, it wont ever be. Well, a few years ago, Im watching this film again. Should never come out of our mouths. Andrew Joseph. See how Im doing, be forced to be my own and only company, to have a look in MY mirror. The house. It may be spectacular, it may be phenomenal, most excellent or outstanding. published May 16, 2015 Matthew McConaughey stopped by University of Houston yesterday to deliver a commencement address to the university's graduating class. Well, it was the night of the twelfth day of my 21-day trip. In these columns were all these vials of these magic potions, right? I was asking myself, whats the reality in this and whats the bullshit? This is the reality that many of you are facing. And this is the beauty of delayed gratification. Inspirational speech by Matthew McConaughey at the 86th Oscars in 2014 | Best Actor for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club Transcript: There's a few things, about three things to my count that I need each day. All right. They really arent going to be there for you in a pinch. I thought about what you would want, I thought about what you might need. After a number of supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). If I dont, I wont. Giving thanks for that which we do have, for what is working, appreciating the simple things we sometimes take for granted. We give thanks for these things and that gratitude, reciprocates, creating more to be thankful for. I seriously love that guy. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way. Wooderson shouldnt have been there. I was having a blast. Its on you. I promise you, the too many options will make a tyrant of us all. Yeah, the Bills won, but they didnt really beat the Oilers. "My experience in workeven going to work with Scorseseis that people always think there's some magic trick. Stuck on the merry-go-round of a bad habit? Soaked in sweat, I threw up until there was no bile left in my belly, and finally passed out from exhaustion. Even when it means having more, be discerning. The point is, I should not have been in that scene. Dont leave crumbs. Id already hiked 80 miles to this point, and I had a three day trek ahead of me to Machu Picchu. Quotes from Matthew McConaughey's speech "If happiness is what you're after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. I would argue that our cultural values have even been financialized. I hate that line going down my jeans! I even discarded my late fathers gold ring with an M on it that he gave to me. By Evan Vucci/AP Photo. And ask yourself, do I deserve this? Number seven. So get rid of the excess, the wasted time, decrease your options and you will have accidentally, almost innocently, put in front of you, what is important to you by process of elimination. I even got rid of that. And dont get paralyzed by denying that they exist and therefore abandoning your need overcome them. Other peoples flaws and limitations. TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Hence, to be happy, we should lessen the burden of desires and expectations. The jungle floor in front of me was actually thousands of butterflies there in my path. If you like your jeans pressed. I kind of looked up at her, my jaw caught hanging open. And since we are the architects of our own lives, lets study the habits, the practices, the routines that we have that lead to and feed our success, our joy, our honest pain, our laughter, our earn tears. That was me. Knowing who we ARE is hard. And yes, most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em. To make it an active part of who we are and live it. I find that most of the times our obsession with what is wrong, just ends up breeding more wrong, more failure. To be spiritually sound? But I am here to talk brass tacks. So turn the page, get off the ride. BE BRAVE, HAVE COURAGE. A speech by Matthew McConaughey shows us that we can always find those things that make us positive if we focus on the journey and stop searching for things that we constantly change. What happens when we get that feeling? So we have to consciously put ourselves in a place to receive that clarity. It shouldnt ever come out of our mouths. Im telling her, she cleans the place after I go to work, washes my clothes, the dishes, puts fresh water by my bed, leaves me cooked meals sometimes, and SHE EVEN PRESSES MY JEANS! My friend, she smiles at me, happy for my genuine excitement over this luxury service Im getting, and she says, Wellthats greatif you like your jeans pressed., I kind of looked at her, kind of stuttered without saying anything, you know, that dumb ass look you can get, and it hit me. Yeah, it was badass. Well, for me, its a measurement of five things. I was naked. Matthew McConaughey: (16:11) Transcribe your audio files to find high-impact insights in minutes. Now, Im not saying be in denial of your failures. Along a muddy path on this walk, I turned a corner and there in the middle of the road was a mirage of the most magnificent pinks and blues and red colors I had ever seen. In fact, 13 has been a pretty lucky number for me, lemme tell you how: Ive always taken these 21 day trips by myself to far off places where I usually dont know the language and nobody knows my name. It is an if-then quid pro quo, standard that we can not sustain because we raise it every time we attain it. 20. People said I was good at it, they were writing me a check for $325 a day. My point is, I should NOT have been in THAT scene, I should have exited screen left and never come back. September 4, 2016 8:48 pm ET. All rights reserved. You hear me? WHEN YOU DO YOU GET STRONGER, MORE AWARE, AND MORE RESPECTFULOF YOURSELF, AND THAT WHICH YOU FEAR. No one else governs these, but you. I need the respect of my peers. Sometimes we do not like what we see. Because I put myself in a place to be found. Life's not fair. Because were not looking at the clock. Now, Im not here to be a downer on that. The crumbs Im talking about are the choices that we make that make us have to look over our shoulder in the future. It means you may have more expertise in what your degree is in. Im talking about the ones we make with ourselves, with our God, with our own consciousness. I hate that line going down the front of my jeans. But what IS happiness? Matthew McConaughey gave an impassioned and emotional speech at the White House on Tuesday calling for "responsible gun ownership" in the wake of the school shooting at Robb Elementary two weeks . And since she did now for the first time of my life, I just liked it because I could get it. I gotta take the tally. I dont think so.. Again, it just happened, and it happens everyday , NOTHING we homosapien earthlings do is unbelievableone thing you can depend on people beingis people. Frank Reich and the Bills come back to win 41-38 in overtime for one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history. I lost my mother suddenly and really tragically at the age of 11. Matthew McConaughey - Actor & Producer I'm going to talk to you about some things that I've learned in my journey. DISSECT YOUR SUCCESSES (and the reciprocity of gratitude). June 7, 2022. Number eight. I put myself in a place to receive the truth. Matthew McConaughey: (38:58) Dont drink the Kool-Aid. Fact. Joy is not a choice. Your investment. Surprisingly fresh and energized, I dressed, made some tea and went for a morning walk. It s not a choice, not a response to some . Turn the page. And there are not enough cops in the entire world to police themIts on YOU. But we all want to succeed, right? Matthew McConaughey: (02:11) Matthew McConaughey: (42:04) Well, architecture is a verb as well. Most from experience, some of them I heard in passing, many of them Im still practicing, but all of them I do believe are true. Joy, though, is something else. Matthew McConaughey makes emotional plea for gun reform at White House: 'A non-partisan issue' Actor and Uvalde native speaks at the White House press briefing following the Texas school shooting. Now we cannot rush this part, it does take time. Okay. Matthew David McConaughey (/ m k n h e / m-KON--hay; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor and producer.He had his breakout role with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). How about that bar that we keep going to that we always seem to have the worst hangover from? I was nervous before I got here to speak tonight. man flies a suicide jet into the World Trade Center, millions die from diseases that we have cures for, Bob the builder swears hell have your house built by Thanksgiving and you cant move in til Christmas, THE NEXT YEAR Our best friend lies to us, and WE, lie to our self, all the timeunbelievable? "I want to keep all five in healthy shape," he said. You just did it. To say, what an unbelievable play. Alive and well in the doing of what were fashion to do and enjoying. View All Credits 1 5.7K 3. Actor Matthew McConaughey made an impassioned speech at the White House reflecting on the mass shooting that occurred in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas. Just dont go there. You you want to ask your boss for that promotion, but youre scared hes going to think youre overstepping your bounds. You didnt pay that guy back the money you owed him and tonight you just saw him sitting 3 rows behind youshitYou slept around on your spouse and you just found out that tomorrow, she and the lady youre having an affair with, are going to be at the same PTA meetingshit again You drank too much last night and youre too hungover to drive your son to his 8 a.m. Saturday morning baseball practice. All right. And we lie to ourselves all the time. Speech-to-Text live streaming for live captions, powered by the worlds leading speech recognition API. Can you hear me? I was lonely, disgusted with my company, mine. We study them. Grappling with these demons on this night, I couldnt sleep. Life is not easy. Schedule that time to be in a place to receive the truth. I love this one. I dont know. I have. You dont have the answers and is probably pretty damn scary. The commencement speech is available for everyone to view for free in the public domain of YouTube. So first, we have to DEFINE success for ourselves, then we have to put in the work to MAINTAIN ittake our daily tally, tend our garden, keep the things that are important to us in good shape. Matrix Resurrections star Keanu Reeves, 57, made a rare appearance with long time girlfriend Alexandra Grant, 49, over the weekend as the two attended the 2022 . And yes, most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get them back. I was embracing only what was in front of my eyes and giving everything that justice that it deserved. But the truth is, as soon as the work, the daily making of the movie, the doing of the deed became the reward in itself for me, I got more Box Office, more accolades and respect than I ever had before. Matthew McConaughey: (22:38) A lot of people looked up to him. And at one particular party after a bathroom break, Larry went confidently up to his mentor Darrell, and he started telling him a story. The time it takes to disconnect from the world that we just left and become completely present in the one we are traveling in. Did I want to stand at a podium and read you your rights? 13. Matthew McConaughey: (32:59) In 1995, I got my first big paycheck as an actor. 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I need my performance to be acknowledged. And theyre writing me a check for $325 a day. 6. And I know that if I dont take care of them, if I dont keep up maintenance on them, one of them is going to get weak, man. I want to skip the flattery and the attaboys. Im settling into camp. Before his appearance in the. I took off every moniker that gave me pride and confidence, all the window dressings, the packaging around my product (heart). The film was Boys on the Side and were shooting in Tucson, AZ and I have this sweet little adobe guest house on the edge of the Saguaro National Park. That college degree? Matthew McConaughey gave a hilariously over-the-top speech to Texas football. Why? For me myself. Or, some cops who got a disturbing the peace call at 2:30 in the morning because you were playing bongos in your birthday suit. Continue to ask yourself that question. Our best friends lie to us. Why you need it in your life, specifically. I dont know. It was a meltdown of he and my moms class rings and gold from my moms teeth. Well, instead of denying these fears, declare them, say them out loud, admit them, give them the credit they deserve. He rang the doorbell, coach answered and he said, Coach, I need to talk to you. Darrell said, Sure, come on in.. We have to have them. Thank you. But what is it worth? Now, they may be truth to me, but dont think that that makes them mine because you cannot own the truth. But we dont always see it, grasp it, hear it, access itbecause were not in the right place to. Yeah, the Bills won, but they didnt really beat the Oilers. My friend she smiles at me happy that Im excited over this. Well in 1996, right after I got famous from the film I did call the time to kill, I headed out on one of these 21-day walkabout, and this time to the jungles in the mountains of Peru. Had that dumb ass look that you get when you just been told the truth and you didnt think about it. Thats where I want to live!! A few hours later, I awoke on this thirteenth morning to a rising sun. Matthew McConaughey: (11:59) Section 107, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Maybe you used to wear them 10 years ago, No Fear. You are not yet over it and get on with it. Even though Matthew McConaughey 's speech was SUPER expensive, his speech was not only intriguing, but enlightening. Refresh the page,. You are not. Rules to abide by in the name of accountability. Along a muddy path on this walk, I turned a corner. Why? Mom and dad, since we were young, they teach us things as children. But back then making my first film, getting invited back to the set, cashing that check and having a ball, I wanted more screen time. We welcome outside contributions. Whatever your answer is, dont choose anything that will jeopardize your soul. Personally, as an actor, I started enjoying my work and literally being happier when I stopped trying to make the daily labor a means to a certain endI need this film to be a box office success, I need my performance to be acknowledged, I need the respect of my peers. To actually take it into our daily lives and practice it. So, I try to measure these five each day, check in with them, see whether or not Im in the debit or the credit section with each one. Short and sweet or long and salty? And the headings above each potion defining what they would give you were things like fertility, health, family, legal help, energy, forgiveness, money. Now, why? You see, I forgave myself that morning. So give your obstacles credit and you will, one, find the courage to overcome them. Now, your answer may change over time and thats fine. Id argue that our cultural values have even been financializedhumility is not in vogue anymore, its too passive. 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