Matthew McConaughey movie quotes

“He’s asking if I ought to kill a man for some corn ... I don’t know ... See here, lieutenant, you steal our corn we got nothing to feed the hog. If we can’t feed the hog we got nothing to put in the smokehouse, we got nothing to put in the smokehouse we starve in the winter. That’s murder, ain’t it? You know what the penalty for murder is, don’t...” (continue)(continue reading)

Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

“- Cooper: Humor, seventy-five percent.
- TARS: Confirmed. Self destruct sequence in T minus 10, 9...
- Cooper: Let's make that sixty percent.
- TARS: Sixty percent, confirmed. Knock knock.
- Cooper: You want fifty-five?”

Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
Bill Irwin - TARS

“Number one, no man ought to stay poor so another man can get rich. Number two, no man ought to tell another man what you got to live for or what he's got to die for. Number three, what you put in the ground is yours to tend and harvest and there ain't no man ought to be able to take that away from you. Number four, every man is a man. If you...” (continue)(continue reading)

Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

“- Cooper: Doctor Brand and Edmonds, they close?
- TARS: I wouldn't know.
- Cooper: Is that a ninety percent wouldn't know, or ten percent wouldn't know?
- TARS: I also have a discretion setting, Cooper.
- Cooper: Ah. But not a poker face, huh?”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
Bill Irwin - TARS

“- Magic Mike: He can't dance for sure.
- Dallas: He can't dance for shit, but that is teachable.”

Channing Tatum - Magic Mike
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas

“I checked the list of people I trust and your name ain't on it.”
Matthew McConaughey - Mick Haller

“Number one rule of Wall Street. Nobody... and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or if you're Jimmy Buffet. Nobody knows if a stock is gonna go up, down, sideways or in fucking circles. Least of all, stockbrokers, right?”
Matthew McConaughey - Mark Hanna

“He was my father. I loved him even if he had gone crazy.”
Matthew McConaughey - Adam Meiks

“- Ron Woodroof: Guess who's going to Mexico, lookin' for a hot date?
- Dr. Eve Saks: Do I look like someone who takes vacations?
- Ron Woodroof: A little tequila, sunshine and tacos never hurt anybody.”
Matthew McConaughey - Ron Woodroof
Jennifer Garner - Dr. Eve Saks

“- Steve Edison: If you're thinking what I'm thinking...
- Mary Fiore: What I'm thinking involves a machete and a pair of pliers!”

Matthew McConaughey - Steve Edison
Jennifer Lopez - Mary Fiore

“- Ron Woodroof: I don't want a nurse. I want a doctor. I want a goddamn doctor now!
- Dr. Eve Saks: Well, how can I help you?
- Ron Woodroof: You fucking deaf, lady? Hmm?
- Dr. Eve Saks: No, I'm a fucking doctor.”
Matthew McConaughey - Ron Woodroof
Jennifer Garner - Dr. Eve Saks

“- Seaman Bill Wentz, Radioman: Mister Tyler, please... don't tell the other guys I'm half German. They'll hate me.
- Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Yeah, sure thing, Wentz.”
Jack Noseworthy - Seaman Bill Wentz
Matthew McConaughey - Lt. Andrew Tyler

“- Murph (10 Yrs.): What are you gonna do with it?
- Cooper: I'm going to give it something socially responsible to do. Like drive a combine.
- Murph (10 Yrs.): Can't we just let it go? It wasn't hurting anybody.
- Cooper: This thing needs to learn how to adapt, Murph. Like the rest of us.”

Mackenzie Foy - Murph (10 Yrs.)
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Dr. Eve Saks: You're in the hospital. You almost died.
- Ron Woodroof: I bet that didn't surprise anybody.”
Jennifer Garner - Dr. Eve Saks
Matthew McConaughey - Ron Woodroof

“She is like a dream you don't want to wake up from.”
Matthew McConaughey - Mud

“Fact is, the law says you cannot touch! But I think I see a lotta lawbreakers up in this house tonight...”
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas

“- Mary: Tax collectors are coming around here taking everything. We'll have nothing for the winter.
- Newton Knight: Girls, do you know how to shoot one of these?”

Kerry Cahill - Mary
Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

“- Dr. Eve Saks: We can make you comfortable.
- Ron Woodroof: What? Hook me up to the morphine drip, let me fade on out? Nah. Sorry, lady, but I prefer to die with my boots on.”
Jennifer Garner - Dr. Eve Saks
Matthew McConaughey - Ron Woodroof

“So if you've got a client who bought stock at 8 and now it's at 16 and he's all fucking happy, he wants to cash in and liquidate, take his fucking money and run home, you don't let him do that... 'cause that would make it real.”
Matthew McConaughey - Mark Hanna

“- Cooper: Hey TARS, what's your honesty parameter?
- TARS: 90 percent.
- Cooper: 90 percent?
- TARS: Absolute honesty isn't always the most diplomatic nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
Bill Irwin - TARS

“We have paid a terrible price, and now we've got a chance to make a difference.”
Matthew McConaughey - Denton Van Zan

“From this day forward we declare the land north of Pascagoula Swamp, south of enterprise and east to the Pearl River to the Alabama border, to be a Free State of Jones.”
Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

“- Dottie Smith: Are you gonna kill my mama?
- Killer Joe Cooper: I don't know. Why?
- Dottie Smith: Just curious.”
Juno Temple - Dottie Smith
Matthew McConaughey - Killer Joe Cooper

“- Newton Knight: Mr. Moses, what are you?
- Moses Washington: A free man, captain.
- Newton Knight: Sure is.”
Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight
Mahershala Ali - Moses

“- Randy 'Pink' Floyd: Have you seen Jodi around?
- Wooderson: No she left your ass.
- Randy 'Pink' Floyd: Well you win some you lose some.”
Jason London - Randy 'Pink' Floyd
Matthew McConaughey - Wooderson