Matt Damon Quotes

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi.

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome. I feel like it's part of what happens in this business, but that's a real one. That's a cool one to get.

I never care about myself out in public when I get the paparazzi swarming me.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

We talk about, 'Wow, thank God that we were out when we were, because it was much easier then.' There wasn't paparazzi following you every step of your day, every move you make.

I walk out the house, and there's paparazzi. There's certain things I can't do if I wanted to date or go on a date. It's like, I have to worry about people taking pictures, and it's crazy.

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.

I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.

I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.