Matt Damon Quotes on People (6 Quotes)

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.

What I have noticed since then is that when some people have gotten to a certain position in Hollywood, they're afraid to lose it. They protect their position like a beachhead. 'God Don't take this away from me.' And so they start making really safe choices. I don't want to do that. If I go down, I'm going to go down swinging.

People who make a living playing poker and in that world, it's not quite as sexy as it sounds.

Even though, by their own admission, the people who voted for that script didn't think it was the best script, it probably was the smartest movie to choose because it does, in an odd way, give the project the greatest chance of surviving, because the movie might actually make money.

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.

If you have two famous people, it's not like the attention doubles, ... It grows exponentially, no matter who they are.