Matthew McConaughey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, but they were pounded into us.
All right.
At the same time, I went 36 years thinking I was little Mr. Texas.
Because my mom told me I was.
Until 36 years later, I look at the trophy and it says I was runner up.
And I go,
Mom was like overselling us to ourselves at the same time.
You better be humble.
Sleep was sin in my household.
Sin, I saw my dad asleep one time in my life.
I got up at eight o'clock on a Saturday morning and looked, went through the kitchen and peeked and I saw him sleeping.
I went and woke up my brothers like, dude, but dad's still asleep.
He actually died two and a half months later.
and connected that idea that, oh, if he slept in that late, he must have not been feeling well.
If it was daylight, you couldn't be inside.
There's a fierce sense of independence.
30 minutes of TV a night, max.
Mom would always say, turn that damn thing off, get outside.
You had to be outside.
Get out in the world, go hustle, figure it out, be home at dark.