Matt Damon Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
-
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
-
Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
-
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
-
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
-
I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
-
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
-
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
-
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
-
I like to laugh and make people have fun.
-
We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
-
My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
-
I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
-
At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
-
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
-
There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
-
Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
-
In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
-
Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside.
-
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
-
I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.
-
I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.
-
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.
