"It was offered to me. When Spielberg says jump, bitches say how high?" --Matt on why he took the role in 'Saving Private Ryan'
"I told Kevin I wouldn't do the movie if Ben took his shirt off...Matt" --Matt on "Dogma" ViewAskew.com WWW Boards (3/17/98)
"A lot of things were important to us writing this script: just treating people nice, not having regrets in the world, being responsible in your relationships and the way you treat other people. That's our philosophy, basically the Golden Rule." --Matt Damon, on the GWH script, to PEOPLE Online
"It was five years of a lot of struggling, with very low lows and very high highs." --Matt Damon, on writing the GWH script
"Well, I'm a genius." --Matt Damon, laughing about how autobiographical GWH is
"I don't care if we're nominated for best morons, because I'd think, well, I got nominated with Ben, and that's pretty cool." --Matt Damon, on the pre-Oscar buzz
"Well, we grew up together, and I think we just look at the world in the same way. He's the funniest guy I know and the best actor I've ever met. Um, I just admire him greatly. You gotta admire a close friend of yours." --Matt Damon, on his best friend
"The suits were going, 'Boys, we were thinking half a mil'. And Ben and I, who weren't sure if we can afford McDonald's tonight, are sitting there like 'Half a mil? Hmmm'." --Matt Damon, on the GWH writing deal
"Some say I use the f-word too much." Matt in Teen People
"I don't know if Ben's my best friend. He was just sorta there." Matt from E! Online
"Knowing that I am the greatest guy in the world really makes it simple."
"I'm not as into fashion as Tom." --Matt Damon, on the Rosie O'Donnell Show, July 21, 1998.
"I figured, Hey! if I can't make money as a waiter, I may as well be an actor!"
''For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to be an actor.''
''Mom, do you want my green stuff?'' --Matt's only line in 'Mystic Pizza'
''Do you like apples? Well, I got her numbah. How ya like them apples?'' --Matt in 'Good Will Hunting'
"Well, Ben cheated on me in 87, but no, we don't really fight." Matt Damon, on whether he and Ben ever fight
"I'm certain I won't be anyone's sex symbol." Matt Damon in a Teen Magazine interview
"See the sad thing about guys like you is in fifty years your gonna come to the fact that thier are two cirtianties in life, one, don't do that and, two, you dropped a hundred grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library." --Matt Damon in 'Good Will Hunting'
