The Origin of 'Alright, Alright, Alright'
McConaughey was thrown into his first unscripted scene on Dazed & Confused with no lines and 30 minutes to prepare. He listed three things his character loved — his car, rock & roll, and getting high — then pulled out of the lot to find the fourth: picking up girls. Those three affirmations became 'Alright, alright, alright' — a line borrowed from a Jim Morrison live recording he'd been listening to obsessively.
