245 Quotes by Matt Damon

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

You people, you read all the books, but you read all the wrong books.

What is your greatest regret?"Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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