Matthew McConaughey Says He Knew He Wanted to Be a Dad From a Very Early Age

Matthew McConaughey is opening up about fatherhood!

On Wednesday (June 16), the 51-year-old Oscar winner appeared on Tim McGraw‘s radio show Beyond The Influence Radio with Tim McGraw on Apple Music Country where he said that he knew he wanted children from a very early age.

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“For me, it was the motivation to continue, but hopefully be able to maybe evolve and improve it. It was when I was eight years old is when it hit me. I wanted to be a father,” Matthew shared. “I remember what it was. My dad was a ‘sirs,’ and ‘ma’ams’ and ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ man, and he would introduce me to his friends.”

“I’m eight years old looking up to them and shaking their hands saying, ‘Nice to meet you, sir. Nice to meet you, sir. Nice to meet you, sir,’” Matthew continued. “At that moment, I had already shaken many of his friends hands through years, but at that moment in my eight year old mind, what went through my mind is, ‘Oh, the common denominator about all these men that I’m saying ‘sir’ to is that they’re fathers. That’s why they’re a ‘sir.’”

Matthew shares three kids with wife Camila Alves-McConaughey – sons Levi, 12, and Livingston, 8, and daughter Vida, 11.

“I remember in my eight year old mind going, ‘That’s when you’ve made it. That’s when you become a sir. That’s what success is,’” Matthew shared. “It hit me then, and it’s never left me as the paramount example of what being a sir or being the greatest success you can be as a man.”

If you missed it, Matthew McConaughey recently addressed rumors that he’s changing careers.