“ It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants. Matt Damon
“ I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your… Matt Damon
“ 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 may have been working and missed that moment. Matt Damon
“ 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,… Matt Damon
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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 actors end up making really safe choices. I never want… Matt Damon
“ 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. I'm still married, still working, still happy. Matt Damon
“ Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterd… Matt Damon
“ 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
“ 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
“ If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd g… Matt Damon
“ That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's… Matt Damon
“ 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
“ 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
