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As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

Matt Damon

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Matt Damon
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 8
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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.
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Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents felt that way and I know that my grandparents felt that way and everybody worked hard so that their kids had a better chance. I just don't want to be the first generation that doesn't do that.
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You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.
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If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.
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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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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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Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.
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