Matt Damon
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"Matthew Paige" ""Matt"" "Damon" is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist. His career was launched with the success of his and Ben Affleck's Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)/Academy Award-winning screenplay, Good Will Hunting (1997), for which he also received a number of Best Actor nominations. Growing steadily in popularity since then, he is now among Forbes magazine's most bankable stars and one of the top-40 highest-grossing actors of all time. to $3.12 1,000,000,000 (number)/billion (based on counting his roles as strictly lead or including supporting roles, respectively) at the North American box office, placing him in the top forty grossing actors of all time./group="nb"}} In addition to the List of awards and nominations received by Matt Damon/many awards and nominations Damon has received, such as Academy Awards/Academy, Golden Globe Award/Golden Globe and other industry awards, for his work in the film industry—in 2007, Damon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named the Sexiest Man Alive by People (magazine)/People magazine.

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I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I feel like Buckner walking back into Shea.

It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This film was actually an excuse for Terry to create an entire world. He does this so well with wide-angle lenses. Terry's frames are so densely packed with information that you can't take it all in the first time.

It would be a dream to work with someone like Ang.

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Right before The Bourne Identity came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.

'It [she] will be a girl,' said Damon in Spanish. The actor has advanced in his classes thanks to his wife, who has dedicated herself to teaching him the language.

Before 'The Bourne Identity' opened, 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' and 'All the Pretty Horses' had been huge bombs, ... I went eight months without getting an offer.