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If you work at something, you get better at it.

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Matt Damon
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 8
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Matthew Paige Damon
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I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.
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If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1.
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If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.
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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.
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Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.
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As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you youre just looking for work.
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I think Clint Eastwood is a well oiled machine. Everyone that works with him has the same reaction, Can I stay with you?
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Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.
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For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.
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It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
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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.
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Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.
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All parents are trying to balance. Look, I'm lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my jobs, and not everybody has that choice. But I definitely, it's a family decision every time I take a job.
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I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was desperate to get a job and couldn't, so I think it's anathema for me to turn down work if I think it's really good.
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I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing.
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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.
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The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.
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I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.
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The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full it's just full all the time.
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We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.
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