If you're just an actor you're reactive. You're saying, "Well, I hope Hollywood gives me a role, or gives me a chance… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1, — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I can't think of any more important value to instill in our children than the desire to help others. I feel strongly… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Maybe if we sit out for the next few years and let Clint Eastwood get a little experience, he's going to be… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
People do things in the names of good, and in the name of ideals, but the world isn't that simple. So they… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I'm actively trying to get away from the over-exposure that happened eight years ago. The only thing a celebrity can do in one of… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's going on… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
If you're just an actor you're reactive. You're saying, "Well, I hope Hollywood gives me a role, or gives me a chance at a… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood expects you to know what you're doing. He's going to take two giant steps back and let you do it. I have… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
The only sci-fi movie that I've ever been offered that, had circumstances been different, I would have definitely done, was 'Avatar.' And I literally… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
And you know, we were talking about American identity, and where we've come from and where we are and where we're headed. We knew… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
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