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
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.
people risk shy
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.
problem obedience
Our problem is civil obedience
song piano play
For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
fake-people real fake
It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
lucky forget happens
I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'
details obsessive
He's famous for being obsessive about details.
writing trying stories
If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.
thinking want directors
As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.