'At 2:30 that morning I finally decided to wind down. There are numerous references to marijuana, cocaine and Ecstasy in the book, and a revealing section about when McConaughey lived at Los Angeles' party-central hotel Chateau Marmont for 18 months in 2000-2001.īusted in 1999 for marijuana possession and resisting arrest during a late-night raid after neighbors called police about noise blasting from his house near Austin, McConaughey explains it all started when the University of Texas, where he attended, defeated Nebraska in a football game that weekend, setting off a two-day bender: RELATED: 2020 Dazed and Confused Table Read Ft. (he slimmed down to 135 pounds for the role). McConaughey focuses quite a bit on how he bolted from popular rom-com roles and shifted to dramas, ultimately leading to the Academy Award Best Actor award in 2014 for his powerful portrayal HIV sufferer Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club. He jumps from movie to movie, making significant stops at Dazed and Confused, A Time to Kill and Dallas Buyers Club. with his dog and adventure trips to South America and Africa. McConaughey spends as much time revealing Hollywood secrets as his does sharing travel stories from touring around the U.S. Greenlights is not your typical celebrity tell-all. Because those three words were the very first words I said in the very first night of the job I had that I thought might be nothing but a hobby, but turned into a career.' People have them tattoed on their arms and inner thighs.

People wear them on their hats and t-shirts. 'Now, 28 years later, those words follow me everywhere. He reminisces about the famous one-liner, ' Alright, alright, alright, ' from the latter film: These are among the many words of wisdom proferred in Greenlights, McConaughey's autobiography published by Crown in 2020, The Texas-born actor turned 50 in November.īest known for his Oscar-winning turn in Dallas Buyers Club, McConaughey got his start playing Wooderson in Dazed and Confused in 1993. 'We can catch more greenlights by simply identifying where the redlights are in our life and then change course to hit fewer of them.' To Matthew McConaughey, life is about making the greenlights.

Matthew McConaughey on his 1999 pot bust: 'It was time to smoke a bowl and listen to the beautiful melodic African beats.'

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