Matthew McConaughey

That's the mean.

No, it's not.

Not with any ambition, it's not.

Or not with life happening, it's not.

You shoot for an A and make a C is better than shooting for a C and making an F. So go for perfection.

Reality always comes in under it.

But in that moment, when you see the inevitable reality, the outcome, the result, how quickly can we go, okay, but I got so much more out of it.

The job, the person, myself, because I went for perfection.

than if I'd have just gone for, nah, dude, just, I mean, you know, just pass class.

But what can be hard for me sometimes is it can take me too long to come down from when, oh, it didn't hit perfection.

And maybe it takes me a week to go, dude, now do you finally realize that, of course you weren't going to get perfection, but you got so much more out of it because you went for perfection.

So...

Be pleased with reality because you got a good grade on it, man.

That was good.

That piece of art wouldn't have been that true if you wouldn't have been.

I always say this all the time, and I never mean this in a disrespectful way.

I've never done a movie or a performance that lived up to what I thought it could be because I'm thinking it can be divine.

It comes out.

It may be majorly inspiring.

It may speak to masses.