Matt Damon famous quotes

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.
-- Matt Damon

#Inspirational #Kids #Thinking

I've gotten much better at multi-tasking. It's hard, though. But, writing a script is not totally focused. You're taking little breaks, all the time. If a kid runs in, you give 'em a horsey ride. It's a pretty fluid process.
-- Matt Damon

#Running #Writing #Kids

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.
-- Matt Damon

#Real #Thinking #Careers

If you work at something, you get better at it.
-- Matt Damon

#Get Better

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.
-- Matt Damon

#Water #Poverty #Solve

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.
-- Matt Damon

#People #Want #Stories

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
-- Matt Damon

#Being Yourself #Thinking #Trying

Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.
-- Matt Damon

#Character #Interesting #Bigger

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These Actor s end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. I know that's the way Heath Ledger feels and Ben Affleck feels the same way, too. We want to take the big swings...
-- Matt Damon

#Swings #People #Choices

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.
-- Matt Damon

#Years #Hypnosis #Done

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
-- Matt Damon

#Inspirational #Choices #Going Away

Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.
-- Matt Damon

#Running #Thinking #Laughing

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.
-- Matt Damon

#Inspirational #Marriage #Wife

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.
-- Matt Damon

#Country #Strong #Believe

If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.
-- Matt Damon

#Car #Lucky #Crash

As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.
-- Matt Damon

#Struggle #Actors #Define You

For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.
-- Matt Damon

#Talking #Actors #Sound

There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and said we don’t live in a democracy. That’s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So you know, he’s got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor.
-- Matt Damon

#Law #Nsa #President

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?
-- Matt Damon

#Mean #Actors #De Niro

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
-- Matt Damon

#Sex #Scandal #Married

My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.
-- Matt Damon

#Inspiring #Prayer #Lost Love

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.
-- Matt Damon

#The End Of The Day #Want #Steps

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.
-- Matt Damon

#Calling

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
-- Matt Damon

#Years #Identity #Bourne

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.
-- Matt Damon

#Two #Roles #Looks

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
-- Matt Damon

#Growing Up #Kids #Class

I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.
-- Matt Damon

#Fun #Character #Sleep

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.
-- Matt Damon

#Thinking #Vision #Actors

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.
-- Matt Damon

#Thinking #People #May

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.
-- Matt Damon

#Success #People #Brain

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.
-- Matt Damon

#Running #Country #Long

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'
-- Matt Damon

#Agreement #Interesting #Follow Me

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money.
-- Matt Damon

#Ocean #Thinking #Play

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.
-- Matt Damon

#Drama #School #Play

Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.
-- Matt Damon

#Soccer #Rain #Fire

History is change happening one person at a time.
-- Matt Damon

#Inspirational #Persons

The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.
-- Matt Damon

#Inspirational #Heart #Way

Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents felt that way and I know that my grandparents felt that way and everybody worked hard so that their kids had a better chance. I just don't want to be the first generation that doesn't do that.
-- Matt Damon

#Kids #Ethos #Grandparent

The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.
-- Matt Damon

#Mother #Home #Marijuana

Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.
-- Matt Damon

#Tables #Firsts #Half

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.
-- Matt Damon

#Strong #Pain #Kids

If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1,
-- Matt Damon

#Girl #Strong #Good Woman

Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.
-- Matt Damon

#Waiting #Wire #Life Is

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.
-- Matt Damon

#Bored #Photograph #Wanted

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
-- Matt Damon

#Mother #Two #Childhood

Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair.
-- Matt Damon

#School #Mean #Kids

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
-- Matt Damon

#Fake People #Real #Fake

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.
-- Matt Damon

#New York #Vacation #Long

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.
-- Matt Damon

#Thinking #Acting #Actors

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.
-- Matt Damon

#Thinking #Average #Guy

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.
-- Matt Damon

#Kids #Breathing #Wife

It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.
-- Matt Damon

#Children #Kids #Greatness

Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.
-- Matt Damon

#New York #Looks #Rooms

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
-- Matt Damon

#Careers #Giving #Focus

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
-- Matt Damon

#People #Risk #Shy

Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There's a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.
-- Matt Damon

#Drinking #Reality #Water

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?
-- Matt Damon

#Successful #People #Helping

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage
-- Matt Damon

#Insane #Needs #Sometimes

Our problem is civil obedience
-- Matt Damon

#Problem #Obedience

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
-- Matt Damon

#Song #Piano #Play

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.
-- Matt Damon

#Trying #Dodge #Labels

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
-- Matt Damon

#Home #Bored #Library

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
-- Matt Damon

#Jobs #Dad #Men

I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.
-- Matt Damon

#Princess #Play #Littles

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.
-- Matt Damon

#Jobs #Thinking #Years

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
-- Matt Damon

#Mom #Dad #Two