Matthew McConaughey movie quotes

“- Brand: Couldn't you've told her you were going to save the world?
- Cooper: No. When you become a parent, one thing becomes really clear. And that's that you want to make sure your children feel safe. And that rules out telling a 10-year old that the world's ending.”
Anne Hathaway - Brand
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Mr. Axelrod: You're gonna let her walk away?
- Tripp: I'm giving her space, Mr. Axelrod. Now, I'm going after her.”
Adam Alexi-Malle - Mr. Axelrod
Matthew McConaughey - Tripp

“I got one... one life, right? Mine. But sh... Fuck, I want somebody else's sometimes. Sometimes I just feel like I'm fighting for a life I just ain't got time to live. I want it to mean something.”
Matthew McConaughey - Ron Woodroof

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Ben 'Finn' Finnegan: Something wrong, Tess?
- Tess Finnegan: Something wrong? Why would anything be wrong? We just had sex in a church - and we're not even married - and now we're gonna dig up a grave! I mean, what is that, like a triple sin? I'm surprised we haven't been struck by lightning.”
Matthew McConaughey - Ben 'Finn' Finnegan
Kate Hudson - Tess Finnegan

“- Killer Joe Cooper: Were you aware of this, Ansel?
- Ansel Smith: I'm never aware.”
Matthew McConaughey - Killer Joe Cooper
Thomas Haden Church - Ansel Smith

“- Professor Brand: The Lazarus missions.
- Cooper: That sounds cheerful.
- Professor Brand: Lazarus came back from the dead.
- Cooper: Sure, but he had to die in the first place.”
Sir Michael Caine - Professor Brand
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Neckbone: I hate snakes.
- Mud: That’s because God made them for us to fear. It’s a thing we knew to be afraid of before we even got into this world.”
Jacob Lofland - Neckbone
Matthew McConaughey - Mud

“- Cooper: Okay. Now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the world.
- Professor Brand: We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
Sir Michael Caine - Professor Brand

“- Doyle: We have a mission.
- Cooper: Yeah, and our mission is to find a planet that can habitate the people living on Earth right now. Okay? Plan A does not work if the people on Earth are dead by the time we pull it off.”
Wes Bentley - Doyle
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“This world's a treasure, Don; but it's been telling us to leave for a while now.”

Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Denton Van Zan: Coffeyville. It's etched in American history because the outlaw Dalton boys were killed there. Ordinary townsfolk rose up and took 'em down.
- Quinn Abercromby: Maybe you're the Dalton boys.
- Denton Van Zan: No, no... We're the townsfolk.”

Matthew McConaughey - Denton Van Zan
Christian Bale - Quinn Abercromby

“- Rayon: I'm Rayon.
- Ron Woodroof: Congratulations... fuck off and go back to your bed.”
Jared Leto - Rayon
Matthew McConaughey - Ron Woodroof

“- Jordan Belfort: [to the waiter] Oh, I'm good with water for now.
- Mark Hanna: It's his first day on Wall Street. Give him time.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Jordan Belfort
Matthew McConaughey - Mark Hanna

“- Andie: Blow.
- Ben: What?
- Andie: Nobody likes Mr. Sniffles!
- Tony: Oh, yeah I hate, Mr. Sniffles.
- [laughing Ben blows]
- Andie: Oh, white! healthy boy, healthy boy.”

Kate Hudson - Andie Anderson
Matthew McConaughey - Ben Barry
Adam Goldberg - Tony

“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.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Cooper: You're ruling my son out for college now? The kid's fifteen.
- School Principal: Tom's score simply isn't high enough.
- Cooper: What's your waistline? 32? With, what, a 33 inseam?
- School Principal: I'm not sure I see what you're getting at.
- Cooper: You're telling me it takes two numbers to measure your own ass but only one to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
David Oyelowo - School Principal

“- TARS: I have a cue light I can use to show you when I'm joking, if you like.
- Cooper: That might help.
- TARS: Yeah, you can use it to find your way back to the ship after I blow you out the airlock. [cue light flashes]”
Bill Irwin - TARS
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Tripp: Am I getting advice from my two loser buddies who still live at home?
- Ace: Actually, I own my home.
- Demo: What?
- Tripp: No, you don't.
- Ace: I bought it a couple of years ago from my mom. That way, she has a place to live and I don't get nailed on the inheritance tax.”
Matthew McConaughey - Tripp
Justin Bartha - Ace
Bradley Cooper - Demo

“Would you stop starin' at her tits, Rayon, you're startin' to look normal.”
Matthew McConaughey - Ron Woodroof

“- Brand: Listen to me when I say that love isn't something that we invented. It's... observable, powerful. It has to mean something.
- Cooper: Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing...
- Brand: We love people who have died. Where's the social utility in that?”
Anne Hathaway - Brand
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Dirk Pitt: What would you do if you were about to be exposed as the biggest polluter in history?
- Al Giordino: I don't know. Run for president?”
Matthew McConaughey - Dirk Pitt
Steve Zahn - Al Giordino

“That shit is purer than a preacher daughter's pussy, right there.”

Matthew McConaughey - Ron Woodroof

“- Jordan Belfort: Mr. Hanna, you're able to do drugs during the day and then still function, still do your job?
- Mark Hanna: How the fuck else are you supposed to do this job? Cocaine and hookers, my friend.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Jordan Belfort
Matthew McConaughey - Mark Hanna

“- Mark Hanna: The name of the game, moving the money from the client's pocket to your pocket.
- Jordan Belfort: But if you can make your clients money at the same time it's advantageous to everyone, correct?
- Mark Hanna: No.”

Matthew McConaughey - Mark Hanna
Leonardo DiCaprio - Jordan Belfort