Build or Break\u201d <\/a>podcast after host Daniel Lubetzky asked how he keeps poor feedback about his performances from negatively impacting his self-worth. <\/p>\nMcConaughey joked that \u201cthe ones who wrote the good reviews were the smart ones\u201d before revealing that he once gathered 20 years of negative reviews in a \u201cbig thick book\u201d and \u201cwent away to the desert for a weekend\u201d to examine them all. <\/p>\n
\u201cI read every one. All the negative reviews … and I sat with them,\u201d he told Lubetzky. \u201cI spent two days with them, and it was hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to McConaughey, some of the reviews were clear \u201cfrom the very first sentence, \u2018Oh, this person has it out for me.\u2019 It didn\u2019t matter whether they saw the movie or not. They just don\u2019t like me. They were going to write a negative review.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the actor said, other writers were obviously dishing out fair and objective criticism. This led him to consider what he could learn from them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018This person\u2019s got a point. They\u2019re actually a fan of mine, and they didn\u2019t get from my performance what I was actually kinda hoping they would have got. Where did I fail in the choice?\u2019 Because this is constructive criticism,\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n
McConaughey has starred in countless hit films and TV shows, including 2013\u2019s \u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street\u201d and 2014\u2019s \u201cInterstellar,\u201d since his breakout role in 1993\u2019s \u201cDazed and Confused.\u201d <\/p>\n
He said he learned during his decades-long acting career that it\u2019s best not to be \u201cfalsely filled up\u201d with the opinions of others and to instead \u201cjust take it in grace and move and dance through [it].\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s part of the role that can come with success. Handle that gracefully,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
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