Matthew McConaughey's Oscar speech describes how his hero has always been a future version of himself. At 15 he idolized his 25-year-old self, at 25 he chased his 35-year-old self, and by 35 he realized the target never stops moving. That perpetual gap keeps him growing.
When Matthew McConaughey won the Oscar, he said, When I was 15 years old, I had a very important person in my life come to me and say, who's your hero? And I said, I don't know. I got to think about it. Give me a couple weeks. I come back two weeks later, the person comes up and says, who's your hero? I said, I thought about it. It's me in 10 years. So then I turned 25. Ten years later, that same person comes to me and goes, so are you your hero? And I was like, no, not even close. No, no, no. My Hero's me at 35. So you see every day, every week, every month, every year of my life, my hero's away. I'm never going to be my hero. And that's just fine with me because it keeps me with somebody to keep chasing me.
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