Matt Damon quotes

Matt Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer known for his versatile roles in film. His career spans from breakthrough performances in dramas to major Hollywood blockbusters. He has earned numerous awards and remains one of the most respected talents in the industry. Here are 67 of his quotes:

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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

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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.

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I mean, I did ride the Paris subway in an attempt to get pick-pocketed in order to see how exactly they did it. My buddy was videoing the whole thing. No one picked my pocket. We got bolder and bolder as we went, but it didn't pan out for us.

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My thoughts on veganism are that it's a wonderful thing to do. I just can't do it. I tried. Casey Affleck and I made a movie in the desert in Argentina like 12 years ago and he's a vegan and I tried to eat vegan and I lasted like two days. I just, I literally can't do it. And I know...that might be bad.

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It was offered to me. When Spielberg says jump, bitches say how high?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

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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.

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I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

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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.

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

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I think marrying somebody who's not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.

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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.

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