Matt Damon Quotes

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

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.

It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.

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 some social value.

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 rest of the world, that's great wealth.

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.

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 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?

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

Clint Eastwood just runs an incredibly tight ship, but it's really laid back.

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.

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.

I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing.

He's famous for being obsessive about details.

It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane.

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 how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

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.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

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.

Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.