Matthew McConaughey on Leaving Hollywood, Raising Kids with a Strong Foundation, and the Power of Faith | Ep. 1156
The Megyn Kelly Show
SiriusXM
4.4 • 38.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'd never been on stage, I'd never done acting before. |
| 0:03.9 | Um, any, any of that. |
| 0:06.1 | Today on the Megan Kelly show, from small town Texas to the bright lights of Hollywood, |
| 0:11.9 | Matthew McConaughey burst onto the scene with a line that became legend. |
| 0:16.7 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:19.0 | From breakout star to king of the romantic comedies. You ever think about that night in the park? They're nice guy rolls, and nothing wrong with that. I was so successful at him that any dramas I wanted to do, Hollywood was not offering me. Even if I took a huge pay cut, they're like, no, no, no, McConaughey, stay in your lane. At the height of all that fame, he walked away. I was ready to do more dramas in life. |
| 0:39.7 | I was ready to stand up for things that I believed, didn't stand against things I didn't. |
| 0:44.1 | There's no parachute boy, you might just written yourself a ticket out of Hollywood. |
| 0:48.0 | Only to return to greater glory. |
| 0:50.0 | And the Oscar goes to Matthew McConaughey. |
| 0:53.5 | That's when I started becoming more of a good man. |
| 0:56.8 | Redefining himself as one of the most compelling voices in film. |
| 1:00.8 | We all got good wolves and bad wolves in us. |
| 1:03.0 | It's our choice to which wolf we want to feed. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm trying to do my best to be the good wolf, knowing that the bad wolf still hungry. |
| 1:10.0 | Today, he's here to share the lessons from |
| 1:12.0 | that incredible ride. This is a rodeo. If you want to get into this, I'm not saying you got a thick skin, but you've got to know what's important to you. Knives are going to come out at you whether you deserve them or not. Fair has nothing to do with this. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show everyone i'm megan kelly have a first-time guest on the show today who you likely know very well, or think you do. |
| 1:32.5 | Matthew McConaughey is an American actor and an Academy Award-winning one at that. He's also a best-selling author. He's a husband, he's a proud dad, and he's a deep thinker who is out with a new book in which he shares |
| 1:46.6 | decades of reflections. Poems and prayers is the name of it. And it's out right now. Matthew McConaughey, |
| 1:54.1 | welcome to the show. Megan Kelly, good to be here. Life insurance is like a parachute. If you don't |
| 1:59.9 | have it the first time you need it, there's no second chance. |
| 2:02.9 | You want to get it right, the right coverage, the right price, no matter where the status of your health stands. |
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