Matthew McConaughey reveals sleep was a sin in his household “Hustle, hustle, hustle. Sleep was sin in my household” “If it was daylight, you couldn't be inside. 30 minutes of TV a night max” “Mom would always say, ‘Why are you going to watch someone doing something when you can go out in the world and do it yourself? Turn that damn thing off. Get outside’” “You had to be outside. Like, go get out in the world. Go hustle. Figure it out. Be home at dark. That was just the understood rule”

Matthew McConaughey reveals how turning down a $14,500,000 movie offer changed his career “This offer comes in for this action comedy. $8M offer. I read it and said no thank you that's the stuff I'm not doing... they come back with a $14.5M offer. I said let me read that again” “I'd read it again. It's the same words that were in the $8M offer that I said no to but it was better written, it was funnier, I could see myself in it. I could make this work” “Anyway, I ultimately said no. I don't have any proof of it but I think that me saying no to that $14.5M offer, a year into me leaving and saying no more romcoms, I think me doing that sent the message to Hollywood” “Oh, McConaughey is not bluffing. What’s he up to? He’s turned down $14.5M. Oh, he’s not for rent. Oh, maybe a little more attractive” “20 months after I stepped out. All of a sudden those offers came in and I was off and I grabbed a hold of all of them I could and loved doing them” “Would those have come if I'd have never stepped out? No, they wouldn't have”