with his dog and adventure trips to South America and Africa. McConaughey spends as much time revealing Hollywood secrets as his does sharing travel stories from touring around the U.S. Greenlights is not your typical celebrity tell-all. Because those three words were the very first words I said in the very first night of the job I had that I thought might be nothing but a hobby, but turned into a career.'

People have them tattoed on their arms and inner thighs. People wear them on their hats and t-shirts. 'Now, 28 years later, those words follow me everywhere. He reminisces about the famous one-liner, ' Alright, alright, alright, ' from the latter film: These are among the many words of wisdom proferred in Greenlights, McConaughey's autobiography published by Crown in 2020, The Texas-born actor turned 50 in November.īest known for his Oscar-winning turn in Dallas Buyers Club, McConaughey got his start playing Wooderson in Dazed and Confused in 1993. 'We can catch more greenlights by simply identifying where the redlights are in our life and then change course to hit fewer of them.' To Matthew McConaughey, life is about making the greenlights. It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.Matthew McConaughey on his 1999 pot bust: 'It was time to smoke a bowl and listen to the beautiful melodic African beats.' Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges-how to get relative with the inevitable-you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.” I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five.

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