Matt Damon Quotes

Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest release, so it's a difficult thing between balancing indies that have uncertain futures and maybe larger films that have guaranteed releases that you have a smaller part in.

I've done quite a few big American films.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

Working on a big-budget summer blockbuster with a built-in fan base is a dream come true for any actor.

Everybody wants a movie career. I found that pretty elusive. I did make a movie with Martin Sheen about a nuclear scientist who has a religious experience. I don't even know what it was called. I don't think it was ever released.

Even after spending a substantial time in the entertainment business, before the release of a film, I am nervous.

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

I can remember before 'Rain Man,' I just couldn't get in on anything, any features. After that and it winning the Oscar - the next year, I co-starred in six movies.

Hopefully, after 'Victorious' has lived a long and beautiful life, I would like to go into movies. And I'd like to have a very successful movie career. Ultimately I'd love to win an Oscar; that's my big goal in life, so that's what I'm going for.

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.