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Review by Mark Athitakis. October 20, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. Matthew McConaughey’s memoir, “ Greenlights ,” has a way of convincing you that being Matthew McConaughey is just about the...
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Oct 20, 2020 · 4.21. 333,405 ratings35,724 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Memoir & Autobiography (2020) From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
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Oct 14, 2020 · 207. By Dave Itzkoff. Oct. 14, 2020. Would it surprise you to learn that more than 30 years ago, before he’d even sauntered across the screen in “Dazed and Confused,” Matthew McConaughey wrote...
Oct 20, 2020 · Reviews. BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR. GREENLIGHTS. by Matthew McConaughey ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 20, 2020. A conversational, pleasurable look into McConaughey’s life and thought. bookshelf. shop now. Awards & Accolades. Likes. 26. Our Verdict. GET IT. New York Times Bestseller. IndieBound Bestseller.
- Matthew Mcconaughey
- ‘The Value of Denial Depends on One’S Level of Commitment’
- ‘To Lose The Power of Confrontation Is to Lose The Power of Unity’
- Don’T Lose Your Truck
- It’S Never Just Outside Sydney
- ‘Form Good Habits and Become Their Slave’
- ‘When You Can, Ask Yourself If You Want To’
- Follow Your Dreams
- ‘When You’Re Up to Nothin’, No Good’s Usually Next’
- Sometimes It Will Be The Same Sign
- ‘Truth’S Like A Jalapeño. The Closer to The Root, The Hotter It Gets’
“Like a good southern boy should”, McConaughey begins with his mother. When McConaughey is eight years old, she enters him into the Little Mr Texas contest. He wins, and his mom hangs a framed picture of him holding his trophy on the kitchen wall. Every morning at breakfast, she gestures to it. “Look at you: winner, Little Mr Texas, 1977.” Now 50, ...
This proclamation, on a bumper sticker reproduced in the book, captures the young McConaughey’s home life: full of love and also violence. (“I’ve always loved bumper stickers, so much so that I’ve stuck bumper to sticker and made them one word, bumpersticker.”) McConaughey’s parents divorced twice and married thrice, to each other. His father broke...
High school for McConaughey was summer time, all the time. He got straight As and dated the best-looking girl at his school andthe other schools. He had a job, no curfew, and a golf handicap of four. He had two years of acne, brought on by a cosmetic called Oil of Mink that his mother was selling door to door – but, blighted by whiteheads (“blister...
Mrs McConaughey suggests McConaughey go on a year-long foreign exchange. His response is immediate: “Sounds adventurous and wild, I’m in.” His host family in Australia tell him they lived in paradise, near the beach, on the outskirts of Sydney. It turns out to be two hours north and inland – a one-street country town of fewer than 2,000 people. His...
Back in Texas, in college, McConaughey starts to have doubts about his plans to study law. These are cemented when he stumbles upon a self-help book, The Greatest Salesman in the World, at a friend’s house. The book’s decree to become a “slave” to self-discipline – intended to be read three times a day for 30 days – absorbs McConaughey completely. ...
McConaughey lands an agent and parts in Angels in America and Boys on the Side. He adopts a puppy – Ms Hud, a lab-chow mix who becomes his longtime companion – and rents a quaint guesthouse on the edge of a national park in Tucson, Arizona. The house comes with a maid, who cooks and cleans. McConaughey can’t believe his fortunes. “She even presses ...
In 1996, A Time to Kill makes McConaughey famous overnight. The press credits him with saving the movies. “Hell, I didn’t knowthey needed saving, and if they did, I wasn’t sure I was or wanted to be the one to save them.” Then his mother gives a television crew a guided tour of McConaughey’s childhood home, pointing out “the bed where he lost his v...
In 2000, a few years after his last hit, McConaughey accepts a generous offer to star in The Wedding Planneropposite Jennifer Lopez. He moves – with Ms Hud and his conga drums (“the purest and most instinctual instruments”) – into the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. “Single, healthy, honest and eligible”, he revels in the mischief and...
After shaving his head to encourage thicker regrowth, a two-year course of a product called Regenix applied twice daily and “an aboriginal handshake with a friend that guarantees what two people agree on will happen if they both believe it”, McConaughey’s hairline bounces back better than ever. Then, shooting Reign of Fire in Ireland, he has a stra...
As Hollywood’s go-to romcom guy, McConaughey is at first unbothered by the fact he is a critical write-off. “I enjoyed making romantic comedies, and their pay checks rented the houses on the beaches I ran shirtless on.” In July 2005 he meets his future wife, embraces family life, and becomes increasingly unsatisfied by his parts. He tells his agent...
Greenlights is a 2020 book by American actor Matthew McConaughey. [1] [2] It was published on October 20, 2020, by the Crown imprint of Crown Publishing Group. [3] [4] Background. McConaughey exiled himself in the desert without electricity for fifty-two days while writing the book. [5] .
Though some of the sentiments are greeting card–ish, this book is entertaining and full of good lessons. A conversational, pleasurable look into McConaughey’s life and thought. Read Full Review >>. A positive rating based on 5 book reviews for Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey.
