Matt Damon Quotes - Page 5

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• People do things in the names of good, and in the name of ideals, but the world isn't that simple. So they end up doing things that aren't necessarily good. Even if they think they're doing the right thing, but when viewed from a different perspective they can look barbaric and crazy.

  Matt Damon

  Crazy, Thinking, Simple

  "The Good Shepherd - Matt Damon interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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

  Writing, Play, Theatre

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• 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.

  Matt Damon

  Growing Up, Kids, Class

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• 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

  Running, Kids, Writing

  "Matt Damon Talks PROMISED LAND, Getting Gus Van Sant to Direct, the BOURNE Franchise, and More". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. January 2, 2013.

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• If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

  Matt Damon

  Calling, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Jobs, Dad, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Poverty, Facts, Done

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• 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.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Average, Guy

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• My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

  Matt Damon

  Inspiring, Prayer, Lost Love

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• 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

  New York, Obscurity, Looks

  "Top gun" by Steven Goldman, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2007.

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• And you know, we were talking about American identity, and where we've come from and where we are and where we're headed. We knew that we wanted to have a hopeful ending and we wanted it to be pro-community, and a pro-democracy type of movie.

  Matt Damon

  Talking, Hopeful, Community

  "Matt Damon Talks ‘Promised Land’, Writing, Directing & Reuniting with Affleck". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. January 4, 2013.

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• 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

  Social Values, Actors, Feels

  "Matt Damon Interview INVICTUS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 10, 2009.

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• I knew very little about Rugby. But, I think it helps in terms of an American audience the game is enough like football in that it's a battle for field position and you score by running into what looks a lot like an end zone. I think in terms the nuance of the game, Americans won't get that stuff. I think in terms of the peanut butter and jelly version of what you need to know, I think it's pretty clear.

  Matt Damon

  Football, Running, Thinking

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• 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.

  Matt Damon

  Children, Kids, Greatness

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• 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

  Drama, School, Play

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• 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

  Mother, Weed, Home

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• 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

  Mother, Two, Childhood

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• 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

  Two, Directors, Three

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• 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 go home.

  Matt Damon

  Home, Bored, Library

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

  Matt Damon

  Running, Laid Back, Ships

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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