Top 90 Matt Damon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “There are people who just collect a bunch of footage and then edit it later. You definitely feel more protected when a director is moving on when you’ve actually felt something happen and you know they’re watching intently.”

— Matt Damon

52. “The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It’s not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog. Germans are so similar to Americans.”

— Matt Damon

53. “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?”

— Matt Damon

54. “I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just – then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.”

— Matt Damon

55. “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.”

— Matt Damon

56. “All parents are trying to balance. Look, I’m lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my jobs, and not everybody has that choice. But I definitely, it’s a family decision every time I take a job.”

— Matt Damon

57. “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 to risk my private life being public.”

— Matt Damon

58. “As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.”

— Matt Damon

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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.”

— Matt Damon

62. “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

63. “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.”

— Matt Damon

64. “He’s famous for being obsessive about details.”

— Matt Damon

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

— Matt Damon

66. “I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn’t really there in my high school.”

— Matt Damon

67. “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.”

— Matt Damon

68. “If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they’d get bored in a day.”

— Matt Damon

69. “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.”

— Matt Damon

70. “The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies – and having been the writer, I can say from experience – the writer is lower down on the food chain.”

— Matt Damon

71. “My wife is my soul mate. I can’t imagine being without her.”

— Matt Damon

72. “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

73. “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.”

— Matt Damon

74. “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.”

— Matt Damon

75. “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 you did this with us.”

— Matt Damon

76. “I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.”

— Matt Damon

77. “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 over already. They’re famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.”

— Matt Damon

78. “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.”

— Matt Damon

79. “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

80. “If your movies don’t perform, they just stop calling you.”

— Matt Damon

81. “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.”

— Matt Damon

82. “Oftentimes when I’m deciding to do a movie, the main thing is really, that I look at, is the director. I’ve come to feel that more and more. The more movies I’ve done and the older I’ve – the more experience I have, I always knew it was a director’s medium, and I always said that.”

— Matt Damon

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

— Matt Damon

84. “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.”

— Matt Damon

85. “I think what makes a good actor’s director is somebody who understands what I’m doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.”

— Matt Damon

86. “I think marrying somebody who’s not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.”

— Matt Damon

87. “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.”

— Matt Damon

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

— Matt Damon

89. “I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.”

— Matt Damon

90. “I’ve been really lucky. I’ll completely forget that I’m a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I’ll go, ‘Oh, right.’”

— Matt Damon

91. “Still, the change is nearly indescribable – going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.”

— Matt Damon

92. “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 the time. If a kid runs in, you give ’em a horsey ride. It’s a pretty fluid process.”

— Matt Damon