Matt Damon Quotes - Page 2

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• Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.

  Matt Damon

  Running, Thinking, People

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

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• Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

  Matt Damon

  Waiting, Wire, Life Is

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• 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

  Thinking, Acting, Directors

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

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• 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 Actor s end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. I know that's the way Heath Ledger feels and Ben Affleck feels the same way, too. We want to take the big swings.

  Matt Damon

  Swings, People, Choices

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• Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents felt that way and I know that my grandparents felt that way and everybody worked hard so that their kids had a better chance. I just don't want to be the first generation that doesn't do that.

  Matt Damon

  Kids, Ethos, Grandparent

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• I can't think of any more important value to instill in our children than the desire to help others. I feel strongly about setting an example for them. Real problems can be solved by the next generation if we instill in them the right values.

  Matt Damon

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.

  Matt Damon

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "Actor-screenwriter-producer Matt Damon, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 11, 2012.

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• [Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.

  Matt Damon

  Water, Toilets, Cleaners

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There's a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.

  Matt Damon

  Drinking, Reality, People

  "Actor Matt Damon's Clean Water Mission" by Imtiyaz Delawala and Cindy Smith, abcnews.go.com. November 27, 2011.

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• Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

  Matt Damon

  Years, Identity, Bourne Identity

  "Matt and Ben: Hollywood's Unhappy Ending?", www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2004.

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• I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

  Matt Damon

  Hypnosis, Should Have, Years

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• Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.

  Matt Damon

  Rap, Writing, Views

  "The Second Biggest Star in a Remote Little Burg Somewhere in Germany" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2013.

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• If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

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  Bored, Photograph, Wanted

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

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• My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

  Matt Damon

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wife

  "Matt Damon: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Real, Thinking, Careers

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

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• I think marrying somebody who's not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Pressure, Marrying

  "Matt Damon: where did it all go right for the leftwing activist, devoted dad and intelligent action star?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2013.

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

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  Country, Strong, Believe

  "Matt Damon: man of the people" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

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  Thinking, Years, Needs

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• I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

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  The End Of The Day, Directors, Want

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

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• The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.

  Matt Damon

  Mean, Self, Class

  "Matt Damon: man of the people" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• 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

  Fun, Character, Sleep

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

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• Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

  Matt Damon

  Soccer, Rain, Fire

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• 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.

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  New York, Vacation, Long

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• When you have a child, your relationship with every child in the world changes. It's like you're in a club you didn't know existed before a child came into your life. I believe you should make the world more beautiful for all children in any way that you can.

  Matt Damon

  Beautiful, Children, Believe

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• 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

  Color, Years, Two

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