I'll take no excuse to keep me out.

[mcconaughey]

At twenty-one, Sarah was a very agreeable young lady. In fact, it was the opinion of many that young Sarah resembled an attenuated Audrey Hepburn, minus the pin curls. She was fluent in French and she spent all her money hard-earned at her grocery store job on black eyeliner and smudged it over her eyes before she ever left the house, no excuses.

Comments

[staitejewel]

Pssst. Happy birthday.

[mcconaughey]

I know it. One more day to go. Please don't calculate my age. I'm telling everyone I'm twenty-one.

[staitejewel]

I won't try to figure out how many years of experience you have, then. Why twenty-one? Things are so uncertain at that age!

[mcconaughey]

Because when you hit thirty-six, you're gonna wish you were twenty-one again. Not as uncertain as you think when you put it into perspective.

[staitejewel]

I thought we weren't going to calculate how old you really are! ;)

But wouldn't you rather be on the edge of seventeen when you still know everything? Or mid twenties after you're a little bit more settled into adulthood?

[mcconaughey]

I'm trying to adjust myself to the number. You could round it up to forty, good god.

No. Not seventeen. Seventeen, I did nothing but sit at home and smoke pot. Twenty-one was great. I was in Australia and having the best time of my life.