Matt Damon Quotes

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• The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather…
• Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents…
• Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most…
• Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.
• Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was…
• 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.
• There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are…
• If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.
• Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.
• If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1,
• 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 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…
• 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've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you.…
• 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,…
• There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and…
• Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These…
• My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in…
• 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…
• 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…

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