Why do people like matthew mcconaughey

We're raised on stories and folklore. If you dramatize the facts, we listen and remember more. And if you weave facts into a personal story, a parable, and make associations, they become like music. I come from a family of great story-tellers. We'd sit around the dinner table — my brothers, my father, my mother and me. I'm the youngest, so I'd listen, listen, listen, and say the least. I had the fewest stories and the least confidence.

I remember waiting and not putting too much food on my fork because I wanted to be ready — maybe I'll get a silent gap to come in.

And I'd find that gap and start a story. I'm in the game, I'm holding court — and now I'm nervous because everyone's listening. All of a sudden, I stutter or go off script and lose my train of thought. Storytelling was a competition in my family, and if you didn't hold the attention, a better storyteller took over and took the stage.

But I continued to tell stories. I took them out of the house and told them to friends and strangers, around campfires and at dinner parties. I became pretty good at it. In school I studied behind the camera, but I ended up working in front of the camera.

I just knew I wanted to be part of a story. I learned to find the rhythm of a story and to trust the pauses — to find the music of a good story. The challenge with my book Greenlights was, How do I show the humanity in my stories through just the written word? I didn't have the ability to perform it or show you my raised eyebrow or give you pregnant pauses. You couldn't see my wet eyes when I'm telling you about my mom and dad fighting, to understand I'm not crying because it was a horror story — I'm crying because it was a love story.

I was the go-to rom-com guy. I enjoyed making them, and they paid well. I was leading a successful life as an actor. But there's a certain buoyancy built into rom-coms that isn't about hanging your hat on humanity, like a drama is. You stay light.

If you go deep in a rom-com you can sink the ship. In my life, though, I was going very deep. I found the love of my life in Camila.

We had a newborn coming. I had more things to get angry about, laugh about, have more joy about and be sad about. The ceilings and basements had more depth and height to them, and I wanted to do work that reflected my personal vitality. So I quit. People were thinking he's some surfer dude. So I went on a sabbatical away from Hollywood. I said no to every rom-com script that came my way. Quit sending him romantic comedies!

No offers came in for almost a year and a half. I was now shaking hands with the fact that I may never work in Hollywood again. It pinched me a little, but I was OK with it. It was time for a new chapter in my life. You didn't see me in your living room or movie theater in a rom-com. You didn't see me shirtless on the beach every weekend in Malibu. And then what happened? I unbranded those two years to then rebrand.

All of a sudden, I became a new, novel idea. The dramas came my way, and I jumped on them. And now I'm pivoting again. In my next chapter I'll step into some sort of leadership position, but I don't know what that is yet. Another book? A ministry? The crux of it is to help others. We're coming out of a time of limbo and evolving, as people and as a nation. After George Floyd died, we sat down with our kids [Levi, 12, Vida, 11, and Livingston, 8] — mainly with the eldest two — and talked about it.

We talked about the race problem historically and about how unfair that was to someone because of the color of their skin. Camila is Brazilian. My kids didn't understand what the color of skin had to do with anything. He filmed public service announcements during the COVID pandemic and handed out masks at local hospitals.

Few groups have endured a less enthusiastic reception than Haitians, despite the pivotal role that the U. I think he would hurt his brand. Both Abbott and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said in interviews this year that they take McConaughey seriously as a candidate.

Walking nearby, Nicci Haynie also said she hopes McConaughey runs. Haynie, 50, is studying communications after serving in the Army. Danielle Crovo nearly swooned at the possibility that the man in the Wild Turkey ad on display across the street might enter the race.

A graduate of Harvard College, she spent a year as Middle East bureau chief before returning as Houston bureau chief. Frustration, defiance in Welsh village to be abandoned to the sea. Biden and Xi to hold virtual summit Monday to discuss tensions. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. McConaughey's loyalty to the University of Texas is well-known, having graduated from the school with a degree in, you guessed it, Radio-Television-Film.

In fact, he just recently gave the boys an impassioned pre-game speech before their much-celebrated victory over Notre Dame back in September. What's more, McConaughey is spending this Fall teaching an advanced filmmaking class at the school.

Hook 'em. One of the best thing about Matthew McConaughey's roles in television and film is that he pretty much always does something that people walk out of the movie obsessing about. Whether it be a look he gives, the way he delivers a piece of dialogue or some other indelible idiosyncrasy, you can always count on a gif of it to pop up on the internet soon afterward.

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