you're Matthew McConaughey-' He said, 'That's right, and I'm saying I don't care if it's being renovated. His eyes narrowed down to her, cocking an eyebrow, he said, 'Do you know who I am?' She said, hoping not to offend, 'Yes. She sheepishly declined, saying that the bar was closed as it was being renovated. He asked her to open the bar while he waited. She was working for Air Canada in Vancouver, and Matthew was there waiting for a flight out. Just a little personal, second-degree moment I can tell you from a friend who met him once. There are many passages that can teach everyone a lesson on a number of topics. What you'll get are some the wonderful interjections of laughter and a few 'wooo's to let you know that Matthew is a genuine human being, very humble of his own fame. My suggestion is also to listen in a quiet environment because Matthew is not an overbearing narrator.

My suggestion is to listen to the audiobook so that you can get wrapped up in that warm, friendly, country-boy voice of his as if he is talking directly to you. It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights - and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.” I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five.

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.

Green lights book