Matt Damon

“יש אנשים שמופיעים במגזינים ואני לא יודע מי הם. מעולם לא ראיתי דבר שהם עשו והקריירה שלהם כבר הסתיימה. הם מפורסמים אולי 10 דקות. קריירות אמיתיות אני חושב שלוקח הרבה זמן להתפתח.”

“אם הסרטים שלך לא מופיעים הם פשוט מפסיקים להתקשר אליך.”

“הסתכלתי על הסיכויים כמו איך בכלל אפרוש את העסק הזה? כשחקן לא ידוע, כדי לקבל תפקיד נהדר כל שחקן אחר צריך להעביר את זה ואז זה נפתח לך ולאלפי אנשים כמוך וכמוך הכל הולך.”

“כל מה שיש לך בסופו של דבר הוא להסתכל אחורה ולאהוב את הבחירות שעשית.”

“אשמח להיות אבא. אני מקווה שאהיה נהדר בזה. זה הפחד של כל אדם ובכל זאת תפקידו החשוב ביותר.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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 actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.”

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

“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.'”

“I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.”

“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.”

“It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.”