Quote: 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. [Matt Damon]
Quote: It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. [Matt Damon]
Quote: It would be a dream to work with someone like Ang [Matt Damon]
Quote: 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. [Matt Damon]
Quote: I feel like Buckner walking back into Shea. [Matt Damon]
Quote: 'It [she] will be a girl,' said Damon in Spanish. The actor has advanced in his classes thanks to his wife, who has dedicated herself to teaching him the language. [Matt Damon]
Quote: I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work. [Matt Damon]
Quote: Right before The Bourne Identity came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year. [Matt Damon]
Quote: It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This film was actually an excuse for Terry to create an entire world. He does this so well with wide-angle lenses. Terry's frames are so densely packed with information that you can't take it all in the first time. [Matt Damon]
Quote: Before 'The Bourne Identity' opened, 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' and 'All the Pretty Horses' had been huge bombs, ... I went eight months without getting an offer. [Matt Damon]
Quote: He admitted Miramax wouldn't make the film with Johnny and that I was their choice. They thought Johnny was too weird and didn't have any box-office clout [Matt Damon]
Quote: It?s completely ridiculous and totally out of our control, ... It?s like, ?OK, well if it doesn?t work then ultimately you have to claw your way back or not.? You?ll just kind of fade until another works or doesn?t. I mean. It?s really an insecure bizarre profession. [Matt Damon]
Quote: At that time they were thinking of themselves as barbarians, ... Suddenly the Brothers Grimm came along and said, 'No, our history is beautiful, our fairytales are beautiful.' They were influential people who rose to positions of real prominence in society. Jacob became a politician, they were famous collaborators; they lived together with their families until they were old men working together, sharing, like, a little desk. [Matt Damon]
Quote: We just had a three-day junket, and I'll do a few more talk shows in New York. [Matt Damon]
Quote: It's no mistake that jazz is kind of a recurring theme in the movie, ... because I think that's what Ripley's doing -- he's riffing, depending on who his partner is. [Matt Damon]
Quote: When I did the first one I only signed up for the first one 'cause I didn't want to be contractually obligated to do more than one if it wasn't a good experience. And, I'd never done an action movie and I was a little leery of the whole thing [Matt Damon]
Quote: I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. [Matt Damon]
Quote: It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for. [Matt Damon]
Quote: 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 guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money.? [Matt Damon]
Quote: Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made. [Matt Damon]
Quote: I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time. [Matt Damon]
Quote: For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again. [Matt Damon]
Quote: I want to do is a character-driven porn movie. It's all going to be about characters, and the porn's gonna grow all out of the character's and it's going to serve as character development. [Matt Damon]
Quote: It's my final shot at giving up. He was recommended by so many people [Matt Damon]
Quote: Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. [Matt Damon]