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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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“You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.”

Book:Good Will Hunting

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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.”

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“Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.”

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“If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.”

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“For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.”

Actors Sound Talking Idiot Biggest Fear

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“As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.”

Actors Struggle Define You Looking For Work

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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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“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.”

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“If you work at something, you get better at it.”

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“Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.”

People Knows Want Stories Glory

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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.”

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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.”

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“I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.”

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“We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.”

World Hard Happens Kids Age Earth Dies Water Five Planets Clean Access Relate Seconds Our Planet Clean Water Sanitation

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

Water Millions Access Toilets Cleaners

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“It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so I've written movies. I've read at this point thousands and thousands and thousands of screenplays. So if something gets me, then I don't ignore that.”

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“Oftentimes when I'm deciding to do a movie, the main thing is really, that I look at, is the director. I've come to feel that more and more. The more movies I've done and the older I've - the more experience I have, I always knew it was a director's medium, and I always said that.”

Feels Looks Said Done Directors Mediums

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“The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.”

Film Decision Directors Shots Dictatorship Arbitrary Benevolent

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“All parents are trying to balance. Look, I'm lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my jobs, and not everybody has that choice. But I definitely, it's a family decision every time I take a job.”

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“It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a time in your life where you have an enormous amount of creative energy, and there's no way to express it. That's why a lot of people get into drinking or drugs or whatever.”

People Way Energy Creative Amount Drug Directors Drinking Enormous Rejected Frustrating Creative Energy

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Writing I Can Ideas

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“The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.”

Want Giving Life Is Ideals Sells Magazines True Freedom Ideal Life

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“If you're just an actor you're reactive. You're saying, "Well, I hope Hollywood gives me a role, or gives me a chance at a role," whereas if you can generate your own content, then you can go where you want to go.”

Ifs Want Giving Wells Actors Chance Roles Hollywood Give Me Give Me A Chance

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“If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.”

Ifs Problem Creative Serious Solutions Angel

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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.”

Knows Wanted Community Talking Democracy Identity Type Hopeful American Identity

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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.”

Feels Values Actors Social Materials Social Values

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“There are people who just collect a bunch of footage and then edit it later. You definitely feel more protected when a director is moving on when you've actually felt something happen and you know they're watching intently.”

People Knows Feels Happens Moving Felt Directors Things Happen Bunch Protected Edits

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“Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if he sees something that is real to him, he'd look up at the [camera] operator and if he gives the look to indicate he'd seen it to, then you print and you'd move on.”

Ifs Giving Should Looks Real Eye Moving Next Directors Cameras Video Naked Look Up Print Village Operators Naked Eyes

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“Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.”

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“I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's going on and how much secrecy and transparency there should be. That's an on-going thing - in a democracy you want checks and balances and oversight, but you need a covert agency to protect the country. It's a very tricky balance and I think it changes as the world changes and I think we all need to be mindful of that.”

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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.”

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“I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing.”

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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.”

Writing I Can Different Play Whole Theatre Chains Thrust Food Chain

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“He's famous for being obsessive about details.”

Details Obsessive

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“Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.”

People Trying Effort Advantage Paranoid

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“Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe.”

Soul Liberty Breathe

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“All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.”

Looks Made Ends Choices Stardom Inspirational Celebrity

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Years Four Thousand Years Ago Nuclear Code Thousand Years Dinosaurs Palin

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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.”

“We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?”

Want Action Study Proud Solutions Be Proud Short Time Grandkids Great Grandkids

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“Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.”

Knows Action Can Do Differences Issues Five Minutes Please Solutions Making A Difference Educate Five Minutes

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“Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.”

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“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 yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.”

Knows World Looks Stills Different Matter Today Next Strange One Day Fame Yesterday Odd Next Day Things That Matter Odd Things

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“If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Trying Stories Problem Audience Pieces Draws Entertainment Supposed To Be Relate Therapy

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“Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids.”

Thinking Knows Kids Actors Growing Up Growing Particular Grew Grew Up My Friends Patient Privilege

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“The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It's not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog. Germans are so similar to Americans.”

Country Differences Walks Germany Overwhelming Other Countries Fog

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“The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.”

People Firsts Believe Bigs Guy Realising Looking Back This Guy Photo Shoots Bathtubs Weber

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“I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.”

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

Thinking Pressure Marrying

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“I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'”

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Born: October 8, 1970
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 121

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