Matthew McConaughey movie quotes

View Quote Shut up, dude! Don't help him!

View Quote And the thing is, Mom, Dad, I've lived upstairs since I was three, and it's been great.

View Quote 'Cause it's going to take a stick of dynamite to get me out of my parents' house.

View Quote This world's a treasure, but it's been telling us to leave for a while now.

View Quote Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.

View Quote 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.

View Quote Just... sing.

View Quote My next show is gonna be... drumroll, please... a singing competition!

View Quote You don't look a day over 90!

View Quote (to Eva as Al, Dirk and Eva are being pursued in Kazim's car) I hope you don't throw like a girl!

View Quote Al: What do you want to do?
Dirk: Uhhhhh...I think we need to pull a Panama.
Al: A Panama? A PANAMA?!
Sandecker: Panama?
Al: You think? Really?
Dirk: Yeah! Really!

View Quote Al: Next time you go!
Dirk: What the hell took you so long?
AL: What? I stopped for coffee.
Dirk: Did you get a receipt?
Al: Yeah, I got a receipt, and you know what? I got you one too!
Dirk: You're the best Al!
Al: You know what? I'll even get you the money from Sandecker.

View Quote [Karen: No.] No? What do you mean "no"?

View Quote Guys, this is the entertainment capital of the world!

View Quote Johnny, you’re going to be working with the number one choreographer in Redshore City.

View Quote Sometimes I feel like I'm fighting for a life I ain't got time to live.

View Quote Let me give y'all a little news flash. There ain't nothin' out there can kill ****in' Ron Woodroof in 30 days.

View Quote Watch what you eat and who you eat.

View Quote Let me tell you what Melba Toast is packin' right here, alright. We got 4:11 Posi-trac out back, 750 double pumper, Edelbrock intake, bored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbo-jet 390 horsepower. We're talkin' some ****in' muscle.

View Quote Man, it's the same bullshit they tried to pull in my day. If it ain't that piece of paper, there's some other choice they're gonna try and make for you. You gotta do what Randall "Pink" Floyd wants to do, man. 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.

View Quote Party at the Moon Tower.

View Quote Oh, of course. Krazy Glue. Why didn't I bring the Krazy Glue, in case his pecker fell off?

View Quote What if what I think is great, really is great... but it's not as great, as something greater?

View Quote I had to go through your wallet to get your identification. And you know what I must say, I've ever met anyone who alphabetized her credit cards before.

View Quote What I'm asking is... are we happier? Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home, we surf the Web, and at the same time we feel emptier, lonelier, and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history...

View Quote As a man of faith, I am bound by a different covenant than Dr. Arroway. But our goal is one and the same: the pursuit of truth. I for one believe her.

View Quote Ironically the thing that people are most hungry for, meaning, is the one thing that science hasn't been able to give them.

View Quote I checked the list of people I trust and your name ain't on it.

View Quote Earl Briggs: You know what? You would've done all right on the streets.
Mickey Haller: Shit. Where do you think I am, Earl?

View Quote Mickey Haller: When do you retire, Lankford?
Detective Lankford: When do I retire?
Mickey Haller: Yeah.
Detective Lankford: Eighteen months. Why?
Mickey Haller: I wanna make sure I show up the next morning so I can kick your ass.

View Quote What is it in us that seeks the truth? Is it our minds or is it our hearts?

View Quote Ellen Roark: Ever seen a man executed?
Jake Tyler Brigance: No.
Ellen Roark: What I suggest is you go to an execution, and see a man be killed. You watch him die, and you watch him beg!

View Quote I had a great summation all worked out, full of some sharp lawyering, but I'm not going to read it. I'm here to apologize. I am young, and I am inexperienced. But you cannot hold Carl Lee Hailey responsible for my shortcomings. Do you see, in all this legal maneuvering, something has gotten lost. That something is the truth. Now, it is incumbent upon us lawyers not to just talk about the truth but to actually seek it, to find it, to live it. My teacher taught me that. Let's take Dr. Bass, for example. I would have never knowingly put a convicted felon on the stand. I hope you can believe that. But what is the truth? That, that he's a disgraced liar? What if I told you that the woman he was accused of raping was 17, he was 23, that she later became his wife, bore his child and is still married to the man today? Does that make his testimony more or less true? What is it in us that seeks the truth? Is it our minds, or is it our hearts?I set out to prove a black man could receive a fair trial in the South, that we are all equal in the eyes of the law. That's not the truth 'cause the eyes of the law are human eyes, yours and mine, and until we can see each other as equals, justice is never going to be even-handed. It will remain nothing more than a reflection of our own prejudices. So until that day, we have a duty under God to seek the truth - not with our eyes, and not with our minds where fear and hate turn commonality into prejudice, but with our hearts - but we don't know better.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 bear children, to have life beyond her own, they decided to use her for target practice. They start throwin' 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.

View Quote We don't start dialing at 9:30, because our clients are already answering the phone! 3...2...1...LET'S ****!

View Quote Think about it. You're dealing with numbers. All day long, decimal points, high frequencies. Bang, bang, bang. **** digits. All very acidic above-the-shoulders mustard shit. All right? It kind of wigs some people out. Right. You got to feed the geese to keep the blood flowing. I keep the rhythm below the belt. Done.

View Quote [Seeing the results of Black Monday ] HOLY...****...SHIT.

View Quote There are fierce powers at work in the world, boys. Good, evil, poor luck, best luck. As men, we've got to take advantage where we can.

View Quote Mud: I like you two. You remind me of me. And seeing how you boys are from Arkansas and we know some people and sounds like we all from the same place I'd say we can make a deal here about somethin'.
Ellis: A deal for what?
Mud: Food. Food for a boat.
Neckbone: This guy's a bum Ellis. Come on.
[Mud's smile vanishes. Neckbone begins to walk off but begrudgingly stops when Ellis starts back in.]
Ellis: Why don't you go get your own food?
Mud: I would if I could, but I told somebody I’d meet ‘em here. So I’m stuck for now and what I got’s runnin’ low.
[Neckbone walks back and pulls Ellis by the arm.]
Neckbone: He's a bum Ellis, let’s go.
Mud: I'm no bum. I got money. You can call me a hobo ‘cause a hobo’ll work for his living and you can call me homeless ‘cause that’s true for now, but if you call me a bum again I'll have to teach you somethin' about respect that your daddy never did.

View Quote 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. Cherokee would wrap snake skin around their pregnant women’s bellies. Induce labor, scare the child out. Here. [He fetches a length of rope out of the duffel bag and tosses it to Neckbone.] Set that ‘round your bed at night. Snake won’t cross braided rope.
Neckbone: Thanks. [nods to Mud’s snake tattoo] So what’s that for then?
Mud: A reminder. Don’t get bit. I was 10, swimmin’ ‘bout a mile up from here. Me and Juniper. Sonofabitch swam right up under me, bit me just below the armpit. June got me out, got me to a clinic. Doctor said I shoulda been dead in twenty minutes. Took us an hour just to get back to town.
Neckbone: What’d they do?
Mud: Gave me antivenom. For a cotton mouth. See here. [Mud shows the tattoo on top of his right hand. He points out the two cotton blossoms bulging from the snake’s mouth.] Problem with antivenom is they can only give it to you once. It’s made from horse blood. Your body would reject it a second time. The cure ends up being more dangerous than the poison.
Ellis: What happens if you get bit again?
Mud: I die, or just sweat it out.

View Quote [to The Kid] You are the husband they never had! You are that dreamboat guy that never came along!

View Quote Fact is, the law says you cannot touch! [smiles] But I think I see a lotta lawbreakers up in this house tonight...

View Quote Will you welcome to the stage, the one, the only... Magic Mike!

View Quote You see, they have great vision during the day, and even better vision at night. But in the failing light, they can't focus. Magic hour.

View Quote We have paid a terrible price, and now we've got a chance to make a difference. We will.

View Quote Look out that window, Eden isn't burning. It's burnt.

View Quote If you wish to be The King of the jungle, it's not enough to act like a king. You must be The King. And there can be no doubt. Because doubt causes chaos and one's own demise.

View Quote ****s sake, Ray. You need to invest in some parachutes. There's a pattern emerging here.

View Quote Any chance?

View Quote Roger Sherman Baldwin: Cinque describes the cold-blooded murder of a significant portion of the people on board the Tecora. Mr Holabird sees this as a paradox. Do you, sir?
Captain Fitzgerald: Often when slavers are intercepted, or believe they may be, they simply throw all their prisoners over board and thereby rid themselves of the evidence of their crime.
Roger Sherman Baldwin: Drown hundreds of people?
Captain Fitzgerald: Yes.
William S. Holabird: It hardly seems a lucrative business to me, this slave trading. Going to all that trouble, rounding everybody up, only to throw them all overboard.
Captain Fitzgerald: No, it's very lucrative.
Roger Sherman Baldwin: If only we could corroborate Cinque's story somehow with evidence of some kind.
Captain Fitzgerald: The inventory. If you look, there's a notation made on May tenth, correcting the number of slaves on board, reducing their number by fifty.
Roger Sherman Baldwin: What does that mean?
Captain Fitzgerald: Well, if you look at it in conjunction with Cinque's testimony, I would say that it means this: The Tecora crew have greatly underestimated the amount of provisions required for their journey, and solved the problem by throwing fifty people overboard.
William S. Holabird: I am looking at the same inventory, Captain, and I am sorry, I don't see where it says, 'Today we threw fifty slaves overboard', on May tenth or any other day.
Captain Fitzgerald: As, of course, you would not.
William S. Holabird: I do see that the cargo weight changed. They reduced the poundage, I see. But that is all.
Captain Fitzgerald: It's simple, ghastly arithmetic.
William S. Holabird: Well, for you, perhaps. I may need a quill and parchment, and a better imagination.
Captain Fitzgerald: And what poundage do you imagine the entry may refer to, sir? A mast and sails perhaps?

View Quote Roger Sherman Baldwin: On the other hand, let's say they aren't slaves. If they aren't slaves, in which case they were illegally acquired, weren't they? Forget mutiny, forget piracy, forget murder and all the rest. Those are subsequent irrelevant occurrences. Ignore everything but the pre-eminent issue at hand. The wrongful transfer of stolen goods. Either way, we win.
Lewis Tappan: Sir, this war must be waged on the battlefield of righteousness.
Roger Sherman Baldwin: The what?

View Quote Amistad Slave #1: [in Mende] He reminds me of that Fula of Baoma, you know the one who hires himself to scrape elephant dung from the crop rows.
Amistad Slave #2: [in Mende] A dung-scraper might be just the kind of man we need right now.
Roger Sherman Baldwin: [point to a map] Here, Africa? Is this where you're from? A-fri-ca?

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