Matt Damon Net Worth

Matt Damon's Quotes

• 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 actors 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.
• If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.
• 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.
• I'm not being a monk. I live my life in New York. I have a girlfriend [Luciana Barroso]. But it's not cost-effective for paparazzi to follow us. They can get one picture of us walking down the street.
• Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: "I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me."

Interesting Facts about Matt Damon

1. 1998: Played in $10,000 buy-in Texas Hold 'Em tournament at the World Series of Poker (www.wsop.com) in Las Vegas. He was knocked out in the first day by poker legend Doyle Brunson. Damon had kings, Brunson aces.
2. Chosen as one of "the 50 Most beautiful people in the world" by People magazine (1998).
3. Dropped 47 pounds for his role as a Gulf War vet in Courage Under Fire (1996).
4. His parents divorced when he was two and he spent part of his childhood in a commune in Boston with his mother.
5. Dropped out of Harvard 12 credits short of graduating to pursue his acting career.
6. To perfect his Southern accent for his role as Rudy Baylor in The Rainmaker (1997), he tended bar in Knoxville, TN, for free. Later he hired one of the customers to serve as his dialect coach.
7. Auditioned for a role in To Die For (1995) which was eventually given to Joaquin Phoenix.
8. Audtioned for a part in Primal Fear (1996) that was eventually played by Edward Norton. He and Norton starred together two years later in Rounders (1998).
9. Both he and Ben Affleck worked as extras on the film Field of Dreams (1989). At one point during the shoot, Matt took some blades of grass from the field as mementos for his father.
10. Turned down a role in The Quick and the Dead (1995). Leonardo DiCaprio was cast instead.
11. Turned down the lead role in The Majestic (2001).
12. When his baby nephew cries, he sings "Afternoon Delight" for him.
13. Was named as one of E!'s "25 Most Eligible Bachelors" in June, 2002.
14. Shaved his head for the movie The Brothers Grimm (2005) (to assist in the wearing of a wig for that role). The shaved head was shown in the movie EuroTrip (2004), which was filmed in Prague at the same time.
15. Started a bowling league in Berlin while making The Bourne Supremacy (2004).
16. Had a cameo as a waiter in the film The Sum of All Fears (2002), but it was cut from the final film.
17. Is the real-life best friend of Ben Affleck. Each has starred together or had cameos in each of the other's films.
18. Has starred in 10 movies where the title contains some part of his character's name in that movie: Good Will Hunting (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Gerry (2002), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), The Bourne Identity (2002), and The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Brothers Grimm (2005), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Jason Bourne (2016).
19. While promoting The Bourne Supremacy (2004) on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), he revealed that when he was a college freshman his agent from a "ma and pa agency" inadvertently sent him and Ben Affleck to an audition for The New Mickey Mouse Club (1977). They were under the impression that they were going to meet the head of Touchstone Pictures.
20. His uncle, George Brunstad, swam the English Channel at the age of 70. He completed the 21-mile swim in 15 hours and 59 minutes, making him the new world record holder as the oldest person to complete the swim. In the process, he raised $12,000 for a Haitian children's group (29 August 2004).