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
details obsessive
He's famous for being obsessive about details.
used should
I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.
next-day yesterday one-day
Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.
giving want actresses
I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.
kids breathing wife
Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.
fake-people real fake
It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
bored photograph wanted
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.
success people brain
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.
sex scandal married
I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
beyond bizarre celebrity cold fame hot profession ridiculous totally
This whole hot and cold thing is completely ridiculous and totally beyond an actor's control. It's a really insecure, bizarre profession and it's compounded with the whole celebrity and fame thing.
certain ideas kinds lead similar
Well, we have similar kinds of ideas about being the lead in a movie, and there are certain things we don't want to be.
few shows talk
We just had a three-day junket, and I'll do a few more talk shows in New York,
perspective similar total
We have a similar perspective, ... We're total hams.
action good obligated signed
When I did the first one I only signed up for the first one 'cause I didn't want to be contractually obligated to do more than one if it wasn't a good experience. And, I'd never done an action movie and I was a little leery of the whole thing,