Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey puts his family first, even before his successful acting career, and the ‘Magic Mike’ hottie says he has scaled back on other interests in order to focus on being a good father.

The 43-year-old, whose model wife Camila Alves gave birth to their baby son, Livingston, just three weeks ago, has made it clear that family is definitely more important to him than his career.

The father-of-three who also has a son, Levi, 4, and three-year-old daughter Vida told EOnline.com that he has scaled back on his other interests and reigned in his ambitions so he can concentrate on being a good father to his kids.

Talking to EOnline.com the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, he said: “When you've got family, you have to pick your extracurriculars. Whoever has kids knows that, man.

“You have to pick and choose and go wait, which is the one I really want to do because I ain't watching all the Saturday's football and I'm not watching all of Sunday's.

“I'm not going to be a kayaker, a snow skier and a marathon runner. No, you gotta zero in when you got kids and a family.”

Matthew also revealed that he has no desire to ever move to working behind the camera, as he’s satisfied with simply being an actor.

He said: “I'm really enjoying being an actor for hire. I've been offered to produce some things and I've said, ‘No thank you.’

“I'm really enjoying my time getting ready for a role, my man, my characters, going to work, doing my best to nail it, finishing work and going, ‘That was a beautiful time. Thank you. See you down the road. I'm going back to my family.’”

Matthew recently revealed having a third child has made life chaotic for him and Camila, 30.

He previously admitted: “It's getting to be more of circus that's for sure. Another plate at the table. Actually he's not eating at a plate, he's on mama because he's only 10 days old.” 

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