Matthew McConaughey

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.

And let's go into it.

It was...

I kept, I'd say I probably gained even more respect for people and things, but I lost a certain amount of reverence that was keeping me from feeling like I deserved or earned things or looking out for myself or holding myself to task.

And I remember all the things that I, and I was just getting, going to Hollywood at the time, so I was getting, fame was out there.

as one of those clouds, you know, with being an actor and all of a sudden celebrity and becoming famous, the reverence I had, I remember it just, it lowered down to eye level.

And I was able to realize it and go, that's not a, that's not fairy dust.

And don't give it so much credit to make it fairy dust.