Matt Damon Quotes

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

I don't like inherited wealth.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

I was as middle class as it comes.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are 700 million peasants in China who are never going to go to Harvard.

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

Money can't buy poverty.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.