Matt Damon Quotes

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

Fame didn't change me.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I want to be an icon.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.