Matt Damon quote: "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."

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

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere...
MATT DAMON

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
MATT DAMON

Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing peopl...
MATT DAMON

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think t...
MATT DAMON

If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
MATT DAMON

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that'...
MATT DAMON

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's ni...
MATT DAMON

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home lear...
MATT DAMON

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as i...
MATT DAMON

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.
MATT DAMON

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect t...
MATT DAMON

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven...
MATT DAMON

The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was ...
MATT DAMON

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it...
MATT DAMON

I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research b...
MATT DAMON

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many yea...
MATT DAMON

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm...
MATT DAMON

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that...
MATT DAMON

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, t...
MATT DAMON

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good d...
MATT DAMON

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting ...
MATT DAMON

The movie is really a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales. It's also an excuse for Terry...
MATT DAMON

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his mo...
MATT DAMON

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-...
MATT DAMON

Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in N...
MATT DAMON

Before 'The Bourne Identity' opened, 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' and 'All the Pretty Horses' had be...
MATT DAMON

Right before The Bourne Identity came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
MATT DAMON

'It [she] will be a girl,' said Damon in Spanish. The actor has advanced in his classes thanks to hi...
MATT DAMON

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that'...
MATT DAMON

This Is Our Youth.
MATT DAMON

I'm moving into a time when I might be more violent, ... I could foresee the choice under certain ci...
MATT DAMON

I've never seen somebody that famous, ever, ... More than Robin Williams walking down the street in ...
MATT DAMON

Ben just didn't want the insanity of media outlets at his wedding. He didn't want a circus,
MATT DAMON

In our own defense, we thought we were meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures for a movie deal...
MATT DAMON

Lost,
MATT DAMON

The show was really good this year and yet we had horrible, horrible ratings, ... When we were in co...
MATT DAMON

I would have played any role in this movie just to work with him, ... He's got the greatest energy, ...
MATT DAMON

I thought it would be impossible for somebody to get that unlucky again. I mean, so much went wrong;...
MATT DAMON

People forget that Ben is a terrific actor,
MATT DAMON

We were totally free to hang out anywhere and no one noticed us. We were not even worth a dot of ink...
MATT DAMON

And we didn't even get the Mickey Mouse show gig, which made for a very depressing train ride back h...
MATT DAMON

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I woul...
MATT DAMON

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one pla...
MATT DAMON

I want to do is a character-driven porn movie. It's all going to be about characters, and the porn's...
MATT DAMON

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me.
MATT DAMON

[Working with Scorsese] was like the honor of my life, ... I'm so busy on stuff that I so believe in...
MATT DAMON

He admitted Miramax wouldn't make the film with Johnny and that I was their choice. They thought Joh...
MATT DAMON

At that time they were thinking of themselves as barbarians, ... Suddenly the Brothers Grimm came al...
MATT DAMON

It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales, through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This ...
MATT DAMON

When I did the first one I only signed up for the first one 'cause I didn't want to be contractually...
MATT DAMON

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm jus...
MATT DAMON

I looked Terry straight in the eye and he finally confessed,
MATT DAMON

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-cl...
MATT DAMON

Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd th...
MATT DAMON

The fact that Terry was directing the movie sold it to me,
MATT DAMON

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the ...
MATT DAMON

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that'...
MATT DAMON

That definitely helps. I think things can get magnified exponentially when you have two celebrities ...
MATT DAMON

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that t...
MATT DAMON

But it's rare, the three out of three. I think for me, 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' had a great script,...
MATT DAMON

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

They were really influential guys -- they unearthed all of these stories and collected them and wrot...
MATT DAMON

First, I was skeptical about a sequel, ... Even when we promoted the first one and that question cam...
MATT DAMON

And he should know! ... No, well, Terry had me take tango lessons to prepare for the movie just beca...
MATT DAMON

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

It would be a dream to work with someone like Ang,
MATT DAMON

I feel like Buckner walking back into Shea.
MATT DAMON

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was...
MATT DAMON

It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This f...
MATT DAMON

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

If you see me or Heath (Ledger) in a movie that you don’t like it’s because we made a bad decisi...
MATT DAMON

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
DAMON RUNYON

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more w...
DAMON HILL

Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their f...
DAMON GALGUT

I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
DAMON GALGUT

I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue....
DAMON GALGUT

Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South ...
DAMON GALGUT

I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of ...
DAMON GALGUT

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
DAMON GALGUT

India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
DAMON GALGUT

I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind &#...
DAMON GALGUT

I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
DAMON GALGUT

Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was...
DAMON GALGUT

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be co...
DAMON GALGUT

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.
DAMON GALGUT

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitte...
DAMON GALGUT

Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in th...
DAMON GALGUT

I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw yo...
DAMON GALGUT

I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
DAMON GALGUT

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequence...
DAMON GALGUT

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around...
DAMON GALGUT

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal,...
DAMON GALGUT

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
DAMON GALGUT

One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about ly...
DAMON GALGUT

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people gr...
DAMON GALGUT

It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things a...
DAMON GALGUT

I'm not designed to interact with society.
DAMON GALGUT

But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
DAMON WAYANS

I never thought about being famous.
DAMON WAYANS

My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
DAMON WAYANS

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
DAMON WAYANS

Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
DAMON WAYANS

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
DAMON WAYANS

We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
DAMON WAYANS

The show has become my therapy.
DAMON WAYANS

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
DAMON WAYANS

And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
DAMON WAYANS

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
DAMON WAYANS

My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
DAMON WAYANS

This town was built on nepotism.
DAMON WAYANS

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot l...
DAMON WAYANS

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
DAMON WAYANS

The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the epis...
DAMON LINDELOF

I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of...
DAMON LINDELOF

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
DAMON LINDELOF

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
DAMON LINDELOF

I always remember liking school.
DAMON LINDELOF

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don&...
DAMON LINDELOF

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher'...
DAMON LINDELOF

I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
DAMON LINDELOF

Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that...
DAMON LINDELOF

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
DAMON LINDELOF

My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'
DAMON LINDELOF

There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to...
DAMON LINDELOF

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that w...
DAMON LINDELOF

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provok...
DAMON LINDELOF

I love collaborating with different people.
DAMON LINDELOF

My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdo...
DAMON LINDELOF

When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
DAMON LINDELOF

I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
DAMON LINDELOF

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
DAMON LINDELOF

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher prob...
DAMON LINDELOF

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what any...
DAMON LINDELOF

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but th...
DAMON LINDELOF

I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
DAMON LINDELOF

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
DAMON LINDELOF

There is no suspense in inevitability.
DAMON LINDELOF

As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly e...
DAMON KNIGHT

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
DAMON KNIGHT

You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and a...
DAMON KNIGHT

There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.
DAMON KNIGHT

One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to w...
DAMON KNIGHT

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I ...
DAMON HILL

If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical o...
DAMON HILL

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at...
DAMON HILL

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my car...
DAMON HILL

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we co...
DAMON HILL

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.
DAMON HILL

I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of thi...
DAMON HILL

Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people ...
DAMON HILL

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals ...
DAMON HILL

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable...
DAMON HILL

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it ...
DAMON HILL

I have always liked a challenge.
DAMON HILL

The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and...
DAMON HILL

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. ...
DAMON HILL

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pu...
DAMON HILL

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that yo...
DAMON HILL

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record strai...
DAMON HILL

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s an...
DAMON HILL

You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under...
DAMON HILL

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
DAMON HILL

With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made.
DAMON THUESON

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
DAMON RUNYON

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.
DAMON RUNYON

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it.
DAMON RUNYON

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
DAMON GALGUT

I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that...
DAMON LINDELOF

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
DAMON ALBARN

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding beh...
DAMON ALBARN

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was g...
DAMON RUNYON

For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was diff...
DAMON SUEDE

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting...
DAMON HILL

I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday morning...
DAMON GALGUT

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
DAMON HILL

If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart?
DAMON SUEDE

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an ol...
DAMON GALGUT

Trust, but verify.
DAMON RUNYAN

You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we play...
DAMON ARTERY

We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards ...
DAMON ARTERY

I'm extremely proud of the kids. We hit this road trip (East won at Green River 72-67 Friday) head o...
DAMON ARTERY

We came out with a lot of energy in the third quarter and got a lot of buckets off our defense. J.B....
DAMON ARTERY

That's what we needed. We have to get stops to run the floor. They did a good job of controlling the...
DAMON ARTERY

He really takes pride in that. He's quick and he loves to play defense. There were a couple of point...
DAMON ARTERY

He called me and said he loved me. I just lost it.
DAMON ARCHIBALD

I've seen everyone on our staff shed some tears. We loved Ames and loved the people here.
DAMON ARCHIBALD

It's in a lot better shape than when we found it. The person coming in is going to have players in e...
DAMON ARCHIBALD

You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open.
DAMON ARCHIBALD

We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an ass...
DAMON ARCHIBALD

It was a service, and it saved us time and money. We don't gain (anything). We gained games. The red...
DAMON ARCHIBALD

We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money.
DAMON ALLEN

They gained rhythm and confidence with every turnover. Every game in which we lost the turnover batt...
DAMON ALLEN

We wanted to have a fast start,
DAMON ALLEN

I didn't throw a good ball, ... ...That's the sort of turnover you can't give up at crucial times.
DAMON ALLEN

It's amazing what those situations can do. It changed the whole ... the game. If it's anything that'...
DAMON ALLEN

I meant to lob it over his (Cotton's) head but I missed and he made a good play.
DAMON ALLEN

I think we came into this situation ? a hostile environment ? and it allowed our team to really focu...
DAMON ALLEN

I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.
DAMON ALLEN

The signing of Chad is outstanding because he sets the tone for our football team and the guys up fr...
DAMON ALLEN

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.

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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.

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