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”