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Diary of a CEO · 2025-09-18

Matthew McConaughey: The Silent Crisis No One Is Talking About! I Sabotaged My Own Career!

Matthew McConaughey: The Silent Crisis No One Is Talking About! I Sabotaged My Own Career!

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

Poems & Prayers

Matthew McConaughey

“thank you for writing a brilliant book, poems and prayers, which everybody can go and get now.”— Matthew McConaughey
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Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

“I got a great story in green lights of them fighting and my mom bashing and breaking my dad's nose with the phone”— Matthew McConaughey

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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The Greatest Salesman in the World

Og Mandino (inferred)

“I go, "The greatest salesman in the world." And I said loud. I go, "Who's that?" I pick it up. And I start reading first chapters about forming good habits”— Matthew McConaughey
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Rattle and Hum

U2 (inferred)

“I had YouTube's Rattle and Hum on cassette... especially Rattle and Hum. Rattle and hum very socially conscious album about oppression”— Matthew McConaughey
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Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater (inferred)

“That was 5 days into shooting my first film, Days Confused.”— Matthew McConaughey
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The Lost Bus

Matthew McConaughey (inferred)

“we're at Toronto Film Festival Premier and Lost Bus. My mom was in it. She's 93. My little my son's in it.”— Matthew McConaughey
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Dallas Buyers Club

Jean-Marc Vallée (inferred)

“Dallas Buyers Club. $4.9 million in 25 days. Shot that movie. Quality on the screen for that much money in that many days.”— Matthew McConaughey
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True Detective

HBO (inferred)

“Lincoln lawyer for this killer killer Joe for Mud for Dallas Buyers Club Magic Mike True Detective”— Matthew McConaughey
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The Lincoln Lawyer

Brad Furman (inferred)

“Lincoln lawyer for this killer killer Joe for Mud for Dallas Buyers Club Magic Mike True Detective”— Matthew McConaughey
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Killer Joe

William Friedkin (inferred)

“Lincoln lawyer for this killer killer Joe for Mud for Dallas Buyers Club Magic Mike True Detective”— Matthew McConaughey
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Mud

Jeff Nichols (inferred)

“Lincoln lawyer for this killer killer Joe for Mud for Dallas Buyers Club Magic Mike True Detective”— Matthew McConaughey
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Magic Mike

Steven Soderbergh (inferred)

“Lincoln lawyer for this killer killer Joe for Mud for Dallas Buyers Club Magic Mike True Detective”— Matthew McConaughey
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Mark Waters (inferred)

“As Mark Waters, director of Ghost Girlfriend's Past, told me one time, "Oh, MC, you're never wrong."”— Matthew McConaughey