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Matt Damon

American Actor

Born: Oct 8, 1970

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

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

Better Somebody Nobody Fake Real Than

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. Matt Damon

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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. Matt Damon

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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. Matt Damon

Time Cause Long Long Time Sit Honestly Couch New Go Been Very Very Long Time Get York New York Place Gonna Vacation

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. Matt Damon

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

Life Day My Life Photograph Bored Get Anybody Wanted

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. Matt Damon

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

Pressure Somebody Think Marrying Takes Lot Off Celebrity Just

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

Best Key Strong Country Believe Way Solid Best Way Making Really

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. Matt Damon

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That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that. Matt Damon

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again. Matt Damon

Some Piano Never Songs Learned Again Them Really Play Played

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work. Matt Damon

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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. Matt Damon

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I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure. Matt Damon

Me Focus Become Pleasure Give Give Me Having Point Never Became Lot Which Interest Much Now Aware Thing Earlier Career

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. Matt Damon

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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. Matt Damon

Me Sometimes Try Wife Kids See Parent More Red Check Been Than Just Breathing Helicopter Now Ever Nickname Alert

Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in. Matt Damon

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. Matt Damon

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