Matt Damon
Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter. He is ranked among Forbes magazine's most bankable stars and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Damon has received several accolades, including an Academy Award from four nominations, two Golden Globe Awards, and has been nominated for two British Academy Film Awards and five Emmy Awards...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 October 1970
CityCambridge, MA
thinking people may
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.
country strong believe
I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.
girl strong good-woman
If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1,
want proud action
We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?
thinking years nuclear
I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.
drinking reality water
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.
water toilets cleaners
[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.
inspirational choices going-away
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.
choices looks inspirational-celebrity
...All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.
running thinking laughing
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.
teacher thinking impact
I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.
being-yourself thinking trying
It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
successful people helping
If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?
water poverty solve
You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.