Matt Damon Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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 DamonSource : "Matt Damon: I Want to 'Raise My Four Girls to Be Strong Women' " by Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 21, 2010.
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“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.”
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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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“If you work at something, you get better at it.”
-- Matt DamonSource : "Actor-screenwriter-producer Matt Damon, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 12, 2012.
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“You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.”
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“Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.”
-- Matt DamonSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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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.”
-- Matt DamonSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.”
-- Matt DamonSource : Source: www.aboutfilm.com
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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 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...”
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“I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.”
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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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“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 DamonSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.”
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“I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.”
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“If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.”
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“As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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?”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.”
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“Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.”
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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 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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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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“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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