#mo

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. ↗

— Matt Damon

#childhood #early #early childhood #education #going

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public. ↗

— Matt Damon

#big #crowds #embrace #enough #events

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ↗

— Matt Damon

#anyway #dodge #doing #gonna #i

In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined film footage, and listened to many detailed and intense stories firsthand, but the one comment that affected me the most came from a former soldier who lowered his gaze to the tabletop and said, ‘I never watch war movies. ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#war #movies

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie. ↗

— Matt Damon

#actor #director #good #good director #i

I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again". But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment. ↗

— Matt Damon

#been #being #being famous #enjoy #famous

Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, 'Well, you know, she’s just a mother.' And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I consider myself to be a feminist, and I’d always wanted to show that just because a woman has made a choice, a free choice to say, 'Well, I’m going to raise my family and that’s going to be my choice. I may go back to a career, I may have a career part time, but that’s my choice.' Doesn’t mean that that’s all she can do. And as we proved there in that little battle, Molly Weasley comes out and proves herself the equal of any warrior on that battlefield. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#feminism #mothers #equality

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad. ↗

— Matt Damon

#contentious #dad #divorced #households #i

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. ↗

— Matt Damon

#ado #around #big-time #brain #go

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. ↗

— Matt Damon

#box #box office #business #complicated #guy