Matt Damon Quotes

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

History is change happening one person at a time.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

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

Our problem is civil obedience

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage