Matt Damon Quotes

When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

I don't know if fame will come.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Success is difficult to define.

Applause waits on success.

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.

I really understood what success is with 'Kempegowda.'

So, I do not work towards fame but if it happens to me, I won't say no.

I am going to go on with my life, and if they call me and say 'Yo, you are going to be in the Hall of Fame or you are going to be in this,' then I am going to say, 'So be it.' If I make it, I will go to the ceremony, and I'll have fun.

I do a fantastic job for a living: I get to play in front of 90,000, and obviously, everyone knows your name and what have you. But I'm no better than anyone else.

The thing that frustrated me is that some people think success is all measured by money.

It is nice to have a lot of people watch your work but I really have thought of it as not the goal of my career but a bonus in my career.