Name: Matthew McConaughey on Courage
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Matthew McConaughey on Courage' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Matthew McConaughey on Courage' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-30. Transcript available.

Yeah. I mean, it's all like having some awareness about yourself, but try not
to be too crazy where
you're sitting there just thinking about yourself all the time. It's all like,
it's all pretty
fascinating, man. I mean, and there's a lot of good stuff in this book. I'm
trying to think of
some of the parts that I really liked. You write that courage is often one more
step.
In the right direction.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you talk about that in marriage, faith, and character.
Yeah.
And yeah, I thought that that was pretty interesting because yeah, there's
times where
I stall.
Yeah.
That's where I stall sometimes. I stall with that. Like, I don't know what this
is going
to be like. I don't know what this is going to feel like. I already don't like
the feeling
of this. Right.
It happens to me a lot with like commitment and relationships and stuff. It
happens to me
a lot. And like, try not to control the outcome of, of like even a moment,
right?
Like, God, I just, you know, to have a little bit of courage there to be like,
well, let's
see what this.
Right. What would one step more take me deeper into debt or am I going to, or
is it going
to, am I going to power through and get to the other side and go, oh, okay. I
stuck with
it. Now I see it. Now I see the light. I like this. I'm it's a, it's a, it's a
really interesting
measurement. I think we always got to do, man. I mean, I try to measure like
there's like,
no fear. I was always like, what do you mean? No fear. There's a lot of stuff I
fear. There's
a lot of stuff. I think we all should fear. It's what things do we go? No, I'm,
but I'm
going to have the courage to go. I'm overcoming that fear, but there's good and
there's bad
fears. Meaning like if I'm reading the script and I kind of like the script,
but man, I'm
not sure about the director and this financing doesn't have enough money behind
it. Can we
really make this good movie? And I'm not going to be, I'm kind of scared of
that. I think
maybe, okay, maybe that's a healthy fear you got there, McConaughey, because
the pedigree
around it may not be as excellent as you want it to be. There's other times, I
don't say
where you see a character and man, I like the directors on it, man. We've got
good financing
behind us. Production value is going to be good. The script's damn good. And I'm
looking
this character and I am scared shitless about how am I going to pull this off?
Well, okay.
I would subscribe that maybe that's a good fear that I need to dive in and go,
well, let's
go find out. But don't back off of that one because that one, and then I'll see
the movie
two years later. I'm like, oh, it was great. And look at that part that that
other guy got
to play. And then I'm kicking myself going, you didn't have the huevos and the
will to go
sit there and go find out? McConaughey, come on, man. You know what I mean? So
it's
measuring the good ones and the bad ones. You say you got a bad feeling if you
already
have a bad feeling. Look, I do think this, man, my brother Rooster says this.
He goes,
man, if everybody only did what they love to do, there'd be a whole lot of
unemployment.
Yeah. You know what I mean? I mean, sometimes it does suck and you got to do
some hard things
that you're like, man, I'm not, this doesn't feel right. Now, does it not feel
right or do
we just not like it? A lot of things I got to do that we got to do that we don't
like
to do to get to the other side and go, well, you know, especially as we get
older and we've got
things that we've invested in, family and friends and relationships for our own
self. Those are some
fires that we've been putting logs on for a while. And it can be hard sometimes
to sit there and keep
tending those fires or keep tending those gardens we're talking about, right?
On our own soul.
But you sit there and you go, I believe that if I do the hard work now and
break this sweat and draw
some blood to make this work, which sucks, I'm going to get to the other side.
It's a sacrifice
I'm willing to take to get to the other side and go, oh, there we go. All right.
There we go. Now
I can sleep better. Now I can wake up going, yep, I'm still connected to what I
was, what I created
in the past for myself. I did the next right thing for myself and it sucked.
But damn it, that's right
there where I could have backed off and retreated. I could have, I could have
said, oh, I smell smoke.
Going to be fire. Well, sometimes it's like, no, it's smoke. Maybe go put out
the damn fire before it
turns into one. Yeah. That's what I mean. Or let's procure this fire a little
bit, make a little
bit of barbecue for the future. Yeah.