If you cant spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker. – Matt Damon
I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is Im just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. – Matt Damon
Success is not something Ive wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, thats true, big-time success. If not, its much ado about nothing. – Matt Damon
If your movies dont perform, they just stop calling you. – Matt Damon
Thats the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesnt matter if youre a nice guy or youre a prick. If your movies do well, theres a job waiting for you in Hollywood. Its not any more complicated than that. – Matt Damon
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, theyd get bored in a day. Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Heres Matt researching in aisle six of his local library. A few hours of that and theyd go home. – Matt Damon
Id had people say, Youll enjoy being famous for a week, and youll never enjoy it again. But I dont think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment. – Matt Damon
There are people who appear in the magazines and I dont know who they are. Ive never seen anything theyve done and their careers are over already. Theyre famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. – Matt Damon
Id love to be a dad. I hope Id be great at it. Thats every mans fear, yet his most important job. – Matt Damon
My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didnt have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad. – Matt Damon
Ive been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really dont have much interest in you. Im still married, still working, still happy. – Matt Damon
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