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Matt Damon Quotes

American - Actor | October 8, 1970 -

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

You Stop Movies Just Your Calling

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

Love Fear Hope Great Job Man

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Day Step Me End Of The Day End Back

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.

Wife Red Me Parent Sometimes Try

Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.

Change New York Feel Walking Look

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

Business Job Waiting You Nice Way

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

Great World Rest Grow Wealth Kid

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

Relationship Parents Mom Loving Up

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

Education Mother Childhood Early Say

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

Good School High School Doing Drama

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

Good Vision Me Think Doing Way

I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'

Go Forget Will Celebrity Lucky Been

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