Matthew McConaughey ditched Hollywood for Texas, turned down $14.5M offer after being dubbed ‘rom-com dude’
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Matthew McConaughey was tired of being pigeonholed to romantic comedies, so he decided to leave Hollywood and settle down in Texas, saying he would not take any projects he was not passionate about.
"Look, man, the devil’s in the infinite yeses, not the nos," he told Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios on his podcast, "Good Trouble." Caroline Thayer is an entertainment writer. Follow Caroline Thayer on Twitter at @carolinejthayer and LinkedIn. Story tips can be sent to caroline.thayer@fox.com.
"'No' is just as important, if not more important. Especially if you have some level of success and access. ‘No’ becomes more important than ‘yes.’ Because, I mean, we can all look around and see we’ve overleveraged our life with yeses and going, ‘Geez, oh man. I’m making C-minuses and all this s--- in my life because I said yes to too many things.'"