Matthew McConaughey is looking back at turning down a huge paycheck.

During a recent appearance on The Diary of a CEO podcast , the 55-year-old Oscar-winning actor revealed that he once walked away from a $14.5 million payday because he wanted to reinvent himself in the acting world.

Matthew said that back in the mid-2000s, he decided to stop doing rom-coms so that he could take on more serious acting roles.

After retreating to his ranch in Texas with wife Camila Alves McConaughey , Matthew recalled that no roles came his way for months until he was offered an action comedy movie.

“$8 million offer. I read it. I said, ‘No, thank you, that’s the stuff I’m not doing,’” he recalled. “They come back with a $10 million offer, ‘I’m not reading that again, no thank you.’ They com

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