Matt Damon
Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter. He is ranked among Forbes magazine's most bankable stars and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Damon has received several accolades, including an Academy Award from four nominations, two Golden Globe Awards, and has been nominated for two British Academy Film Awards and five Emmy Awards...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 October 1970
CityCambridge, MA
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There is stuff that I do where I am just, like, 'Oh man, this is brutal and why did I do that and why did I make that choice and what am I doing?' ... This time I just -- I don't know, it just seemed pretty honest when I saw it.
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My suspicion would be that it would've been released sooner, but they had so much else going on with their own deals and starting this new company,
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They had to do it quickly and quietly to avoid all the media nonsense. It really is a shame that it's come to the point where celebrities have to sneak around to get married.
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People forget that Ben is a terrific actor,
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It's about what everyone else is doing at the table, and you can figure out what somebody's got based on how well you read them,
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These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
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Maybe through some fault of his own, Ben hasn't made the greatest choices in the last few years,
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I've never seen somebody that famous, ever, ... More than Robin Williams walking down the street in Boston, this guy would walk down the street in Italy and grandmothers would be hanging out of their windows yelling, 'Fiorello, Fiorello.'
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I looked Terry straight in the eye and he finally confessed,
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Your fate in Hollywood is totally beyond your own control,
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I thought it would be impossible for somebody to get that unlucky again. I mean, so much went wrong; they had everything but locusts on 'Quixote,' it was really, really bad luck.
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It would be a dream to work with someone like Ang,
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a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales as seen through the eyes of Terry Gilliam in a wild fantasy world only he could create.
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He admitted Miramax wouldn't make the film with Johnny and that I was their choice. They thought Johnny was too weird and didn't have any box-office clout.