Matt Damon Quotes

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!

Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.

Offscreen, I'm a private person. I'm shy and don't know how to face the public.

I've never had a very great public life.

I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.

I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

I get embarrassed by people. It's really awkward for me to have a chat with people who have been to see a gig.

I am shy - going to parties kills me.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.

I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.

When I avoided interviews, it was mainly because I didn't want to speak only about my personal life.

I'm actually shy in person.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

I've been stopped a few times by people who want to say, 'Hi.' But I'm an introverted person, and the idea that I'd have to talk to people all the time seems a little overwhelming.

You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!'

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.