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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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“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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Author:Matt Damon

“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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“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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Author:Matt Damon

“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.”

Ifs Term Pieces Written Materials Projects Intuitive Screenplays

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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.”

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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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“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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“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.”

Ifs Mean Different Play Character Fighting Losing

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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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“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.”

“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

Author:Matt Damon

“I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.”

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“Maybe if we sit out for the next few years and let Clint Eastwood get a little experience, he's going to be a good director.”

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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.”

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“Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.”

Ifs Firsts Hours Half Tables Spots Sucker Half Hours

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

Ifs Wanted Photograph Bored Aisle

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“If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1.”

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“Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.”

People Ifs Bigs Success Brain

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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.”

Ifs Long Causes Honest Havens New York Long Time Honestly Vacation Couches

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“Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'”

Ifs Feels Interesting Deals Agree Agreement Follow Me Unspoken Paparazzi

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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.”

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“If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?”

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

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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.”

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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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“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.”

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Author:Matt Damon

About the Author

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

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