Matthew McConaughey is an Oscar Award-winning actor with a net worth of over $150 million. So you might expect that he would want his kids to be just like him. But in a new interview with PEOPLE, the Failure to Launch star says that is not the case at all.
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McConaughey Gets Honest About Fatherhood
When speaking with the outlet, McConaughey explained why he would want his children to not be like him. In his words, the goal is not for his children to be just like him. But rather for them to take some of the knowledge and values that he has taught them and apply said values to their everyday life. In McConaughey's words, that is the key to becoming "immortal" as a parent.
"Every parent out there, what do you want for your children? You want to pass on some values and things that you built in your own life," the Dallas Buyers Club star said to the outlet.
"You don't want them to be exactly like you, but you want them to take some things and keep them alive after you are gone. That's how you become immortal."
McConaughey and his wife Camila Alves McConaughey share three children: Two sons, Levi and Livingston, and a daughter named Vida. And he apparently takes his job as their father very seriously.
Earlier this year, Matthew appeared on the Bear Grylls Is Running Wild podcast. During his appearance on the program, the actor spoke about how a man having children starts the transformation from being a prince to becoming a king.
"I think a man's a prince until he has children, then he becomes a king. I don't think there's anything more important that a man can do," he said on fatherhood.
He also described fatherhood as the "greatest art" that a man can make.
"In fact, man, we're mortal. That's the beginning of our immortality, and hopefully, we're lucky enough to have offspring, and it continues to pass that down," he continued. "I think that the greatest art that a man can make is being a good father to a son or a daughter."
