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
giving magazines want
The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.
bored photograph wanted
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.
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.
done want poverty
It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.
the-end-of-the-day want steps
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.
giving want actresses
I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.
people want stories
Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.
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?
certain choice crossed foresee lines might moving time
I'm moving into a time when I might be more violent, ... I could foresee the choice under certain circumstances. There are lines that are crossed and it could get dangerous.
bush cheer fan president
I'm not a fan of ( President Bush ), so I let out a big cheer (over West's comments),
bizarre fade insecure ridiculous totally ultimately until work works
Its completely ridiculous and totally out of our control, ... Its like, OK, well if it doesnt work then ultimately you have to claw your way back or not. Youll just kind of fade until another works or doesnt. I mean. Its really an insecure bizarre profession.
collected guys proud stories suddenly wrote
They were really influential guys -- they unearthed all of these stories and collected them and wrote them down and suddenly everyone got very proud of their heritage; and then there's our movie,
few shows talk
We just had a three-day junket, and I'll do a few more talk shows in New York,
came next promoted question sign skeptical
First, I was skeptical about a sequel, ... Even when we promoted the first one and that question came up -- would I sign up for the next one? -- I said, 'No, there is no next one.'