Matt Damon Choice Quotations

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These Actor s end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. I know that's the way Heath Ledger feels and Ben Affleck feels the same way, too. We want to take the big swings...

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

...All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

I'm moving into a time when I might be more violent, ... I could foresee the choice under certain circumstances. There are lines that are crossed and it could get dangerous.

Maybe through some fault of his own, Ben hasn't made the greatest choices in the last few years,

These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

He admitted Miramax wouldn't make the film with Johnny and that I was their choice. They thought Johnny was too weird and didn't have any box-office clout.

There is stuff that I do where I am just, like, 'Oh man, this is brutal and why did I do that and why did I make that choice and what am I doing?' ... This time I just -- I don't know, it just seemed pretty honest when I saw it.