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Matt Damon
American
Actor
Born:
Oct 8
,
1970
Been
Good
Me
People
Think
You
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My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.
Matt Damon
Soul
Marriage
Wife
My Soul
Soul Mate
Without
Mate
Being
Her
Imagine
It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
Matt Damon
You
Yourself
Better
Try
Be Yourself
Think
Other
Some
Version
Than
Person
Just
Wants
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
Today
Day
You
Strange
World
Matter
Yesterday
Nothing
Everyone
Rules
One Day
Know
Looks
Still
Odd
Odd Thing
Fame
Intellectually
Mattered
Same
Same Things
Famous
Different
Then
Really
Next
Differently
Thing
Things
Apply
I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
Matt Damon
Love
Hope
Great
Man
Fear
Job
Important
Every
Most
Important Job
His
Dad
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
Me
You
People
First
Picture
Looking
Looking Back
Big
Believe
Back
Everything
Bathtub
Photo
Tell
Photo Shoot
Bruce
Guy
Only
He
Taking
Very
Get
Shoot
Did
Just
Realise
Now
Ever
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
I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
Matt Damon
Great
World
Wealth
Rest
Relative
Kid
Nor
Up
Privilege
Did
Wanting
Anything
Grow
Grow Up
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
Business
People
Try
Some People
Lose
Down
Some
Never
Like
Safe
Protect
Making
Go
Clinging
End
Up
Get
Going
Afraid
Wanted
Anything
Really
Choices
Swinging
Actor
Route
Position
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
You
Walk
Fog
Overwhelming
Differences
Other
Other Countries
Some
About
Similar
Countries
Like
Around
Germans
Germany
American
Going
Where
Us
Much
Thing
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
Success
People
Nothing
Those
Wrapped
About
Ado
Something
True
Around
Go
Brain
Yes
Movies
Success Is
Then
Much
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
You
Business
Waiting
Complicated
Matter
Will
Job
Nice
Way
Guy
More
Well
Box
Box Office
Offered
Than
Office
Any
Movies
Hollywood
Your
Nice Guy
Works
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
Work
Good
Me
Desperate
Job
Down
Think
Anathema
Kind
Because
Still
Years
Get
So Many Years
Turn
Really
Hard
Many
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
Director
Three
Enough
Those
Definitely
Exact
Look
Role
Get
Same
Any
Which
Scripts
Them
Really
Things
Two
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
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.'
Matt Damon
Me
You
Paparazzi
Follow
Unspoken
Feel
Deal
Anything
Interesting
Agree
Now
Publicly
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
Life
Myself
Me
People
Events
Worth
Some People
Big
Enough
Embrace
Some
Risk
More
Crowds
Private
Private Life
Getting
Being
Public
Found
Publicly
Started
Shy
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.
Matt Damon
Day
Me
Director
End Of The Day
Medium
Back
About
Step
Boundaries
Always
Hear
Cautious
End
Any
Just
Want
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
Change
Down
Everybody
Indescribable
Temperature
Total
Having
Obscurity
Feel
New
Look
Still
Walked
Walking
York
Going
New York
Room
Turn
Street
Nearly
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.
Matt Damon
Education
Mother
Say
Would
Knew
She
Going
Childhood
Actor
Professor
Early
Two
Early Childhood
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
Good
School
Young
Drama
Kind
High
High School
Had
School Plays
Like
Stigma
Doing
Department
Then
Really
Good Drama
Started
Plays
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