Matt Damon Quotes

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

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 think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

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

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

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.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

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

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

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.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

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

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.

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?

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

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

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

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

Our problem is civil obedience

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.

History is change happening one person at a time.

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

I think Clint Eastwood is a well oiled machine. Everyone that works with him has the same reaction, "Can I stay with you?"

Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe.

Clint Eastwood expects you to know what you're doing. He's going to take two giant steps back and let you do it. I have such appreciation for that part of him.

The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

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.

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

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.

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