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
kids breathing wife
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.
new-york vacation long
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.
thinking acting actors
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.
agreement interesting follow-me
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.'
drama school 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.
inspirational heart way
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.
strong pain kids
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.
mother two childhood
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.
bored photograph wanted
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.
waiting wire life-is
Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.
running country long
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.
success people brain
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.
mean actors de-niro
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?
law nsa president
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.