Matthew McConaughey says it was love at first sight when he met his wife Camila Alves

Recalling his first meeting with the brunette beauty, he said: "I was very happily single and healthily single. I was not looking. I was sleeping well, I was spiritually sound, I was good hanging with me.

"Out of the corner of my eye, this sort of aqua-green figure went floating across the frame about 20 feet in front of me. My eye went up and I remember what came out of my mouth. I didn't say 'Who is that?' I went, 'What is that?' As l was trying to get that's attention across the room, I went in my head, 'This is not the kind of woman you call over across the room, McConaughey. Get your ass out of your chair and go get her.' Which I did.

"We went on our first date three nights later and I knew then ... I've been wanting to go on a date with her for the last nine years and not with anybody else."

And the 46-year-old actor also opened up about the couple's three children, Levi, seven, Vida, six, and Livingston, three.

He told PEOPLE magazine: "Levi is the architect. Levi observes, Vida sees, Livingston does.

"Levi is the most considerate person I know but he loves to measure the anatomy of the situation. Very much a perfectionist like me. Vida just makes sense of situations. She cuts right to the nut of the answer real quick ... Then Livingston is the doer. He's the monarch."