Matthew McConaughey Recalls Making Pact With Wife To Remain In Texas Unless He Got Offered Roles Outside Of Rom-Coms
deadline.comMatthew McConaughey may be a king of rom-coms, but all was not all right, all right, all right at one point in his acting career.
While speaking with Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios on his Good Trouble podcast, the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star recalled a time in his professional life when he felt was on “autopilot” and not producing performances that resonated with him. “The devil’s in the infinite yeses, not the nos,” he began. “‘No’ is just as important, if not more important.
Especially if you have some level of success and access. ‘No’ becomes more important than ‘yes.’ Because we can all look around and see we’ve over-leveraged our life with yeses and going, ‘Geez, oh man.
I’m making C-minuses and all this sh– in my life because I said yes to too many things.’” The Interstellar actor continued, “When I was rolling with the rom-coms, and I was the ‘rom-com dude,’ that was my lane and I liked that lane.
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