Matthew McConaughey Quotes

I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.

I'm home in New Orleans!

I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.

New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other way!

I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.

My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.

New Orleans is a unique environment.

I'd like to move back to New Orleans.

Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it's a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there's nothing like New Orleans.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is.

It's just the vibe I got when I landed in New Orleans. The culture is absolutely different. It's so dangerous, I tell you, I fly in and I fly out of town. That's how scared I am. And this is where I came from.

We all have our own party fantasy that we've either lived or wanted to live in New Orleans.

Far Rockaway is like the New Orleans of New York.

New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.