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. Matt Damon More Quotes by Matt Damon More Quotes From Matt Damon If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1. Matt Damon girl strong children 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. Matt Damon actors sound talking I can't think of any more important value to instill in our children than the desire to help others. I feel strongly about setting an example for them. Real problems can be solved by the next generation if we instill in them the right values. Matt Damon real children thinking 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. Matt Damon years needs thinking There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. Matt Damon careers real thinking 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. Matt Damon sleep fun character I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way. Matt Damon strong believe country Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe. Matt Damon breathe liberty soul We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to. Matt Damon age water kids All parents are trying to balance. Look, I'm lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my jobs, and not everybody has that choice. But I definitely, it's a family decision every time I take a job. Matt Damon parent choices jobs The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary. Matt Damon arbitrary decision directors For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again. Matt Damon piano play song Oftentimes when I'm deciding to do a movie, the main thing is really, that I look at, is the director. I've come to feel that more and more. The more movies I've done and the older I've - the more experience I have, I always knew it was a director's medium, and I always said that. Matt Damon done directors looks It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so I've written movies. I've read at this point thousands and thousands and thousands of screenplays. So if something gets me, then I don't ignore that. Matt Damon projects pieces term 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 focus careers giving The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom. Matt Damon magazines want giving Our problem is civil obedience Matt Damon obedience problem 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. Matt Damon want directors thinking It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane. Matt Damon color two years I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to. Matt Damon used should
