Matt Damon Quotes

• 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

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

  Matt Damon

• It’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

  Matt Damon

• If your movies don’t perform, they just stop calling you.

  Matt Damon

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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

• 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

Matt Damon (35)

Birth:	8th October, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Philanthropist, Producer, Screenwriter

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