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Matt Damon is an accomplished American actor, born on October 8, 1970. He is renowned for his performances in films such as 'Good Will Hunting', 'Dallas Buyers Club', and 'The Departed', for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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“Our problem is civil obedience”

Problem Obedience

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“You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.”

Water Poverty Solve Sanitation

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

Play Song Piano

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“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.”

Trying Kind Wanted Theory Labels Dodge

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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.”

Ifs Home Wanted Hours Lines Six Library Photograph Locals Bored Aisle

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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.”

Men Important Jobs Dad Every Man Important Jobs

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“I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.”

Ifs Littles Play Bits Watches Little Bit Let Me Madness March Princess

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

Want Should Years Done Years Ago Should Have Cigarette Hypnosis

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“I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was desperate to get a job and couldn't, so I think it's anathema for me to turn down work if I think it's really good.”

Ifs Thinking Years Kind Stills Hard Jobs Turns Desperate Anathema

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“I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.”

Giving Interest Pleasure Careers Focus Give Me

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

Ifs Calling

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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.”

Ifs Looks Two Enough Three Roles Directors Scripts Three Things

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

Years Identity Bourne Bourne Identity

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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.”

World Kids Grows Wealth Class Growing Up Middle Privilege Middle Class Relative

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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.”

Trying Whole Character Fun Process Sleep Interesting Trouble Figures Research Scripts Shooting Anxious Restless Trouble Sleeping

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“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.”

Thinking Way Feels Actors Vision Directors Productive Respectful Good Actors

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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.”

Ifs Want Ends Steps Directors Boundaries Mediums The End Of The Day Cautious Overstepping

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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.”

Thinking Guy Walks Rooms Average Brad Everyman

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“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.”

Two Young Parent Mom Dad My Mom Household Divorced Contentious

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“Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is "red alert." I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Kids Parent Wife Red My Wife Checks Breathing Nicknames Helicopters Overprotective Red Alert

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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.”

Feels Looks Stills Turns Rooms Streets New York Walking Temperature Obscurity Indescribable

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Born: October 8, 1970
Known for: Actor
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