Matthew McConaughey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'm too impressed.
So I'm removed from the present.
For me,
What that literally meant to me when that came to me in a dream and I carved it in, I remember carved it in a tree.
It took a couple hours.
I still know where that tree is, Santa Monica.
It was, my father had moved on.
He'd left this life.
All of a sudden it hit me.
Oh, I don't have the safety net.
My dad was above law and above religion to me.
He had me.
If I really was in the shit, if I really needed him, I trusted that he had my back.
Above law, above anything.
All of a sudden, he's gone.
I'm going, okay.
It hit me how much I'd been pretending to be the young man.
I was trying to be and not actually put my ass on the line and have enough courage to take risk and actually own up to the man that he was teaching me to be.
That cloud that Mr. Mayor, that I saw there, was not way up there.
It was fog in front of me now.