Matt Damon Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

“Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.”

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

“If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.”